Tony Schwartz has been documenting life in sound and pictures since 1945, when he bought his first Webcor wire recorder and began to record the people and sounds around him. From this hobby developed one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of voices, street sounds and music, a collection that resulted in nineteen record albums for Folkways and Columbia.

Tony Schwartz has been documenting life in sound and pictures since 1945, when he bought his first Webcor wire recorder and began to record the people and sounds around him. From this hobby developed one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of voices, street sounds and music, a collection that resulted in nineteen record albums for Folkways and Columbia.