78 rpm Audio Digitization and Preservation

Collection of Recorded Sound | Museum-Archive of Russian Culture, San Francisco

Since 2018, I have served as the curator at the Collection of Recorded Sound at the Museum-Archive of Russian Culture, San Francisco, where I have worked to catalog, preserve, and digitize over 3000 rare musical recordings. In 2021, the National Recording Preservation Foundation provided funding for me to digitize 200 recordings from the collection for the first time. These recordings can be listened to for free online at the Internet Archive and on the Russian-Records database.

The Collection of Recorded Sound features:

- 78 rpm recordings made in St. Petersburg / Petrograd, Moscow, and Kyiv before the Russian Revolution

- 78 rpm recordings made in Harbin, Manchuria and elsewhere in the Republic of China

- 78 rpm recordings made by Russian, Ukrainian, and Jewish émigrés in Western Europe and the United States

- A large number of LPs produced by independent record labels in California and the Pacific Northwest