Albert R. Brand
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Albert Rich Brand (October 22, 1889 – March 28, 1940)[1] was an author and innovator in the recording of bird songs.[2] Herbert J. Seligmann wrote Man and Bird Together: A Portrait of Albert R. Brand about him.[3]
He was a stockbroker until age 39. At Cornell University he became a graduate student of ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen. Brand collaborated with Cornell's engineering department to record bird songs, publishing two books accompanied by photographs.[4] His first guide book about bird songs was accompanied by a phonograph record of a few dozen calls. He followed it up with a sequel with even more recordings.[5]
He also recorded frogs. Sales of phonograph records of bird sounds were a key source of income for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.[6]