The Pavek Museum for the History and Technology of Electronic Communication is home to over 12,000 square feet of antique radios, televisions and broadcast equipment. Since 2001, it has also been home to the Minnesota Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame. This year’s Hall of Fame inductees include Cathy Wurzer, current host of […]Read more »
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Will Steger is one of the most revered polar explorers of our time. Among his many singular accomplishments, Steger led the first confirmed dogsled expedition – without re-supply – to the North Pole in 1986. Happily, Steger has been careful to preserve the story of his life and times through […]Read more »
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 »
The Green Giant Company records contain one of the largest collections of audiovisual advertising material at the Minnesota History Center. Over two hundred barely-identified 16mm optical sound film reels initially resided at the Historical Society in LeSueur County, MN – the original location of the Green Giant offices. These were […]Read more »
Before Minnesota Public Radio purchased 89.3 FM in 2004 and created the Current, the station was owned by St. Olaf College and known as WCAL. Recently, St.Olaf College Special Collections and Archives completed archival descriptions of the complete WCAL Radio Collection (1918-2004). The work was made possible through a grant […]Read more »
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 »
In January 2001, the Hennepin County District Court launched a 30-minute weekly program on the Channel 6 Metro Cable Network. “Meet Your Court” was the inspiration of then Chief District Court Judge Kevin Burke, who felt that the media generally failed to report what was really happening in the court. […]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 »