As the Audio Lab Technician at the Wisconsin Historical Society I work with recorded sound materials in a variety of formats, but primarily:

• Multiple groove phonograph records and vinyl long-play records
• Compact cassettes
• Open reel magnetic tape

The WHS houses tens of thousands of recorded sound items and they’re process of providing online access to Wisconsin Sound Archive as they’re digitized and transcribed. I work extensively with sound recordings from the Wisconsin Oral History Preservation Project and Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater

Some of the most notable collections I’ve worked with are:

• Emile de Antonio Papers
• Dalton Trumbo Papers, 1905-1962
• Highlander Research and Education Center Records,
• Shirley Clark Papers, circa 1936-1983
• Wisconsin Women during World War II Oral History Project
• Wisconsin Democratic Party Oral History Project
• Most recently, I had the opportunity to digitize the only known surviving recordings of the Musical Comedy Hour, a thirteen part series airing on New York’s WNBT, featuring adaptations of Broadway musical comedies and operettas. These aluminum- lacquer discs are the only surviving representation of these thirteen shows, as the film has been lost. They are part of the Harry Sosnik Papers, 1920-1995 at the WCFTR.