Trapped in Wax Like a Fly in Amber

I spend a few minutes (translation: hours) poking through wax cylinder recordings listening to audio ranging from Arthur Osmond ("Bob down, You're Spotted") and Harry Lauder to American ethnographic recordings to Luisa Tetrazzini and Antonio Vargas, the latter in a recording of Ah che la morte ognora from 1902.

If I once set foot near wax cylinders, which can be found all over the place on the web, I am doooomed as I go from one to the next until I notice just how much time I've spent. My ostensible quest was Adelina Patti recordings, which recordings - a few, anyway -I did find. Didn't slow me up, at all, but I did find them :-D

Arthur Osmond
Bob Down, You're Spotted - 1911

Old Ninety-Seven
Sung by Fred Lewey in Concord, N.C., October 15, 1925.