Lazarus Archive · LZ-00867

Westwater oral history project

Westwater Historical Society, 1989–1996. Sound recording for studio equipment.

Description

Interviews with 117 older residents of Westwater about their working lives.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in North Fairbury. The label, written in marker, reads ‘Master’. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9c06dfc5684ffbc13fd9e515524b5d807b644e793166ea9ff26249aed620d476
Last verified
Sep 14, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
FLAC, 24-bit
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

Reading-room copies are migrated to FLAC, 24-bit. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Westwater Historical Society, Westwater oral history project (1989–1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00867.

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