Sound Recordings
The Romney audiotape collection consists of 759 reel-to-reel and cassette sound tapes made in the period 1952-1969. Included are tapes of Romney speeches, press conferences, and political addresses and meetings. The collection also includes tapes made by the Romney staff of speeches and interviews of other political figures. The bulk of these tapes will be found in Romney's Gubernatorial Series with a smaller quantity (ca. 149 tapes) located in the Pre-Gubernatorial Subgroup.
To facilitate economy in storage, the tapes have been arranged by size and then chronologically. The seven-inch tapes, which comprise the bulk of the collection, include a separate subseries of audiotapes of press conferences. Although the chronological series of audiotapes includes many Romney press conferences, this subseries consists of tapes, many of which cover multiple dates. To avoid confusion in the chronological listing of tapes, therefore, it was decided to maintain these multiple date press conferences as a separate unit. For the researcher interested in listening to a specifically dated Romney press conference, he/she should first consult the chronological listing, then the listing for the multiple-dated press conferences.