The Science Museum of Minnesota started collecting artifacts from the local Hmong community in the 1980’s, which was a time of great cultural change. In addition to collecting physical artifacts, the museum documented oral histories, cultural activities, and demonstrations of Hmong crafts. This aspect of the collection was recorded on […]Read more »
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In 2017, the Carleton College Archives began a multi-year partnership with Saving Tape to systematically digitize almost 60,000 35mm photographic slides. The archive is housed at the Gould Library on the campus of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Carleton had previously cataloged the slides, storing them in a hanging sleeve […]Read more »
Since receiving its 501(c)(3) status in 2004, the African American Registry has created the most comprehensive on-line database resource of African American heritage in the world. One AAREG initiative is called Voices That Guide Us. First conceived in 2005, the collection features HD video narratives of black elders, professionals, and young […]Read more »
The Norwegian-American Historical Association recently engaged Saving Tape Media Conversion to digitize an archive of oral histories recorded to audio cassette in the 1990s by author and academic Odd Lovoll. NAHA archivist, Kristina Warner describes the project as follows: The Odd Lovoll oral history digitization project started in 2020 when the Norwegian-American […]Read more »
Saving Tape has completed a large audio digitization project consisting of the analog-to-digital transfer of oral histories from audiocassettes and reel to reel tapes to digital .WAV & Mp3 audio files. The project came from The Central Minnesota Historical Collection – part of the St. Cloud State University Archives. Of […]Read more »
Saving Tape Super 8mm film transfers are featured throughout the recent documentary film by Maya Washington. Through the Banks of the Red Cedar tells the story of Maya’s father Gene Washington, a star football player at MSU in the 1960s when racial integration in Big Ten football was still new. Gene would eventually […]Read more »
Mixed Blood Theater recently approached Saving Tape for help digitizing their archive of production videotapes. Saving Tape worked within their limited budget to create high quality digital files for archiving, copying, editing, web-posting and more. The digital transfers consisted mainly of VHS tapes, Video 8 cassettes, as well as Digi […]Read more »