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.