Lazarus Archive · LZ-04655

Ironfield oral history project

Ironfield Historical Society, 1989–2003. Sound recording for studio equipment.

Description

Interviews with 128 older residents of Ironfield about their working lives.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All files were recovered; 8 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8dea9530a98a52f3f257ff23c7cfe05548fd14e2d3a4188b92cf8634e9c34f49
Last verified
Sep 27, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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

Cite as: Ironfield Historical Society, Ironfield oral history project (1989–2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04655.

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