Oral History/Transcription Work

FIRES ORAL HISTORY PROJECT 

I am working as a volunteer interviewer and/or transcriber for this project. This is a project that publishes videos of members of the Zoroastrian community. The project is a way to bring awareness of the community through sharing life stories, cultural insights, and more. Check out their work here: https://fires-fezana.org/category/oral-history/. I am also working on a fiction book about the Indian Parsi community, so working on this project will be helpful for my book. Please contact me using the Contact form if you are from the community and would like to share your personal experiences or stories. 

TRANSCRIPTION WORK

I am interested in history, and movies, and reading old letters, so I checked out transcribing projects in my free time. I worked on reviewing and transcribing letters, and music sheets from 1870s to the 1930s:

Library by the People (Library of Congress) 

  • Transcribed Silent Film Music Cue Sheets (Films A-C) Columbia Pictures Presents The Fakir with Jacqueline Logan, Charles E. Delaney, Warner Oland, and Gaston Glass  (page 1)
  • Transcribed Silent Film Music Cue Sheets (Films T-Z) The First Kiss
  • Transcribed Silent Film Music Cue Sheets (Films A-C) A Cresent picture music presentation Hearts of Man (page 1)
  • Transcribed Women of the World: Political Thinker Hannah Arendt General Corresnpondence 1938-1976 Hannah Arendt Paers: Corresppondeance 1938-1976; General 1938-1976 Weil, Anne 1969-1971 (page 13)

(French and German transcription)

  • Transcribed “To be preserved”: The Correspondence of James A. Garfield General Correspondance, Vols. 83-94 July-Setepmber 1880 (page 357)
  • Transcribed Rouge Rider to Bull Moose: Letters to Theodore Roosevelt 17. Jan. 9, 1915-May 1, 1916: War and Peace Theodore Roosevelt Papers: Series 1: Letters and Related Material 1759-1919; 1915, Oct 23-Dec. 12 (pg 174)
  • Transcribed Rouge Rider to Bull Moose: Letters to Theodore Roosevelt 17. Jan. 9, 1915-May 1, 1916: War and Peace Theodore Roosevelt Papers: Series 1: Letters and Related Material 1759-1919; 1915, Oct 23-Dec. 12 (pg 264)
  • Transcribed Rouge Rider to Bull Moose: Letters to Theodore Roosevelt 18. May 2- Dec. 1916 T.R Donates His Papers Roosevelt Papers: Series 1: Letters and Related Material 1759-1919; 1916, Jul 31- Aug 26 (pg 250)

 

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