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What's an Archives?

An archives is a place where people can go to gather firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports, notes, memos, photographs, ...

About the National Archives of the United States

The National Archives was established in 1934 by President Franklin Roosevelt, but its major holdings date back to 1775.

Archive - Wikipedia

Archive · An archive is an accumulation of historical records · Archives contain primary source · In general, archives consist of records that have been ...

What Exactly Are the Archives and Why Are They Important?

It is the space where we store, catalog and interact with materials of enduring value, selected purposefully to be preserved for the long term and maintained ...

About The Archives - National Archives Foundation

The National Archives and Records Administration is the nation's official record keeper, safeguarding and providing public access to billions of records ...

What Are Archives? - Society of American Archivists

Archivists are the professionals who assess, collect, organize, preserve, and provide access to these records.

What are archives? - ICA

According to the Universal Declaration on Archives, archives are a unique and irreplaceable heritage passed from one generation to another. Archives are managed ...

What are archives? - Black Metropolis Research Consortium

Archives are collections of materials that can include: Archives are preserved because they have historical significance. What's considered valuable varies for ...

What are archives? - The National Archives

Archives are collections of information – known as records. These come in many forms such as: letters reports minutes registers maps photographs and films ...

Archives 101: What is an Archival Collection? - The Phillips Collection

Archival materials can include receipts, correspondence, photographs, ledgers, digital media, and related ephemera. In order to maintain their ...

Beginner's Guide to Archives - Swarthmore College

Archives are for everyone. Both the Friends Historical Library and the Swarthmore College. Peace Collection are open to everyone, including the general.

About the Archive | UCLA Film & Television Archive

The UCLA Film & Television Archive is renowned for its pioneering efforts to rescue, preserve and showcase moving image media, and is dedicated to ensuring that ...

About IA - Internet Archive

About the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in ...

Basic Facts about Archives - A Guide to Archival Research

An "artificial" aggregation of records, gathered by an individual or an organization, devoted to a single theme, person, event, or type of record.

English 1213: Composition II: What are Archives?

An Archives' main goal is to secure, save, and share the story of the institution, a person, a group of people, a culture, city, state, building, etc.

What Are Archives? - an introduction - YouTube

Archives are vibrant places where the first-hand materials of human history are actively collected, preserved, managed, and made accessible.

Introduction to Archives and Manuscripts - Primary Sources

Archival materials are primary sources and include things like letters, diaries, manuscripts, newspaper articles, as well as audio/visual and ...

The Basics: What are Archives? - Library - University of Hull

Archives are places of deposit for collections of archival material. They are established by services and organisations responsible for managing, preserving ...

A Guide for the Inexperienced - Archives Hub - Jisc

An archive holds original and unique sources, which are largely unpublished, although it may also hold books, periodicals and pamphlets of an historic nature, ...

Disrupting the Archive and Why it Matters to History - Artwork Archive

An archive is how we have gone about saving and organizing histories, preserving our pasts, recording our presents, and bringing insights into the future.