Tennessee Williams collection of noncommercial recordings 1948

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Tennessee Williams collection of noncommercial recordings 1948

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20478

Eleven of the thirteen recordings in the collection were made by Williams in 1948 at a New Orleans carnival booth facility. These recordings primarily feature Williams reading his poems, including selections from In the Winter of Cities. Williams also participates in apparently impromptu comic sketches with friends.

The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

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