I started out volunteering at a local history archive in San Jose, CA during my first semester of grad school. I learned a lot about managing space and collections and the connections I made there led me to my first internship #Archive30 #ArchiveBeginnings
Drawing of the Armstrong Building dated 1893.
Plan of the second floor of the Armstrong Building in the 1890s.
Catching up with yesterday's #Archive30 theme of #ArchiveBeginnings
Here's a plan for the Durham College of Science, today known as the Armstrong Building. Can you spot the "Reference Library" on the plan of the 2nd floor?
We wonder if could trace our roots back 130 years to that room?
Sepia photo of faculty in front of a building. Most women are in long skirts and shirtwaists, with me in suits
Black and white portrait of a woman
Although the Archives wasn't formally founded until the 1980s, our #ArchiveBeginnings go back to the founding of UNK in 1905. A lot of the material we have in the Archives was collected by Anna Jennings, the first librarian. A UIUC grad, she was on faculty into the 1930s. #Archive30 #archives
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#Burgerbibliothek #Bern doesn't usually buy archives, but sometimes relevant items end up in auctions or at a bookseller's 🙄
so, today was the archive beginning for this 1721 genealogy we won at auction 😊
Wooden doors and a shelf filled with old pharmacy items
White cupboard door with a printed note headed SPECIAL RULE
Day 2 #Archive30
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Strictly speaking before 1908! Recent work on history started 18years ago with preparations for the Centenary of Whitchurch Hospital
What a journey it’s been so far
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📷 setting up 2008
📷 drug cupboard
#Archive30 #Archivebeginnings One of the first items we acquired at Winterbourne was this tiny household diary in which Margaret Nettlefold recorded every servant she employed between the 1890s and 1930s. @arascot.bsky.social
The Archives Centre under construction in December 1971.
A photograph of Marion Stewart, Archivist from 1978-1987, in the Sorting Room in 1978, CCAR 907/5.
An Archives Assistant operating the hydraulic shelving in our strong room in 1978, CCAR/907/5.
🌱 Today's #Archive30 theme is #ArchiveBeginnings!
As many of you will know, Churchill Archives Centre opened its doors for the first time in 1973, purpose-built to house the papers of Winston Churchill & his contemporaries.
Here are some photos of the Centre being built & early members of staff.
A woman in a long skirt sits at a table bearing a large ledger and instruments of crime such as burglars' tools, with three men, a woman and a child standing on the other side of the table. In the room around them pistols, weapons and other tools are attached to the walls on open display, with death masks on a high shelf above them. At the top, close-ups of the pistol used by Edward Oxford in his attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria, a said of items captioned as "The property of a distinguished prisoner", and what looks like a wooden box with a plunger entitled "Prof. Zandevesto's fortune telling machine". Overall caption is "The Criminal Museum at the Convict Office, Metropolitan Police Department, Scotland-Yard".
150 in ten days' time, the Crime Museum may not have started out as an archive, but did originate in record-keeping of criminals' belongings, from 1870 kept in trust for the term of their sentence & then returned - other than the instruments of crime, naturally! #ArchiveBeginnings #Archive30 #CMU150
What came first? The archive or the shelving? We started the new year with the deconstruction of old make do shelving to make way for proper nice shelving units #ArchiveBeginnings #archive30 . We've already run out of room @arascot.bsky.social
Page from an article titled ‘The Muniment Room at St Bartholomew Hospital, London’ by Sir D’Arcy Power, printed in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol III No. 3, March 1940. A white piece of paper against a white background with black writing.
![White text on a blue background, the text reads - “About four years ago the Governors of St Bartholomew’s Hospital asked me to examine the Hospital records, say in what state I found them and make suggestions for their continued preservation. A new system of central heating had been introduced and it was desired to know whether the alteration in the temperature of the muniment room was beneficial or detrimental to its contents...
...They were not damp and they had not been injured by mice, vermin or fungus. The grim of years was upon them and at the end of a morning we looked like sweeps...
...And so it is possible to continue the story to the present day, for the records are well kept and the journals are posted up continuously.”
Extracts from ‘The Muniment Room at St Bartholomew Hospital, London’ by Sir D’Arcy Power, printed in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol III No. 3, March 1940 [SBHREF/183]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreiftxnnfdp46b7mcycexyjndb3tcc6b5z5ux7rioln2v7ihpdwkqlq)
White text on a blue background, the text reads - “About four years ago the Governors of St Bartholomew’s Hospital asked me to examine the Hospital records, say in what state I found them and make suggestions for their continued preservation. A new system of central heating had been introduced and it was desired to know whether the alteration in the temperature of the muniment room was beneficial or detrimental to its contents... ...They were not damp and they had not been injured by mice, vermin or fungus. The grim of years was upon them and at the end of a morning we looked like sweeps... ...And so it is possible to continue the story to the present day, for the records are well kept and the journals are posted up continuously.” Extracts from ‘The Muniment Room at St Bartholomew Hospital, London’ by Sir D’Arcy Power, printed in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol III No. 3, March 1940 [SBHREF/183]
The first person employed specifically to care for our archives was D'Arcy Power, Surgeon to the St Bartholomew's Hospital, who became Honorary Keeper of Muniments in 1934. Based on this article we think he'd be happy with how're doing things!
#ArchiveBeginnings #Archives #Archive30
Telegram from John Hunt to Edmund Hilary asking if he or Charles Evans will lead an expedition to Kanchenjunga in 1955 - together with Evans positive reply
Lots of our archives relate to expeditions - and they often begin like this. An offer to climb and someone saying yes.
These papers are from our files relating to the 1955 Kanchenjunga exhibition - nowadays you'd get an email or WhatsApp not a telegram. #Archive30 #ArchiveBeginnings
An image containing a collection of light brown archive folders, handwritten documents, a handwritten ledger and a closed volume with the title 'Dunston Turnpike Road'.
Most of our collections have reference numbers starting with the letter 'D', beginning - unsurprisingly - with D1, which are 18th and 19th century records of the Chesterfield and Brimington Turnpike Trust. In case you're wondering, we're now up to D8774!
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Bexley Local Studies #ArchiveBeginnings came in 1972 when records of the predecessor authorities of the new London Borough of Bexley were brought together in the new Library Service HQ at Hall Place Bexley. We stayed there until moving to Bexleyheath in 2000. #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
For #Archive30 #ArchiveBeginnings we are going back to the start of our Victorian Commons site. One of our earliest posts, written at the time of the 2012 Olympics, looked at Robert Fitzroy MP and his role in the development of weather forecasts. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/r...
Did you know that Gwent’s #ArchiveBeginnings date back to 1938? Originally based within Shire Hall, Newport, Monmouthshire Record Office was initially overseen by James Conway Davies, Consultant Archivist, and charged with surveying and cataloguing the county’s records. #Archive30
Day 2 #Archive30. We’re looking at #ArchiveBeginnings of The Dublin Biological Club, Jan 1872 in TCD. Members could present papers, specimens, & cases on 'the morbid & health conditions of animal & vegetable life'. The club moved to Great Brunswick Street and finally to RCPI.
Handwritten page of the first minute book of the College.
Today's #Archive30 theme is #ArchiveBeginnings.
Our College was founded in 1599 to improve healthcare in Glasgow & the West of Scotland. This is the very first minute book of our College. It dates from 1602, 3 years after the College's foundation, and is written in old Scots.
Plan of the Assizes Courts
Discover our #ArchiveBeginnings in the 'In the Beginning' section of 'Our Favourites' gallery! In 2023, we celebrated 75 years with an exhibition that took you on a journey through our story. Explore the history, the highlights, and our legacy here: bit.ly/4kJawJI #Archive30
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I found many photos, documents and "ephemera" when my mum in law died. It is a treasure trove of the history of not just one City, but the story of "ordinary" life in England and across the seas in the last 200 years .
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The Modern Records Centre's rules for researchers, August 1974: "1. A Research Record form is to be completed on a researcher's first visit. 2. A Document requisition form is to be filled in for each request for material. 3. No smoking. 4. Pencil only to be used : no ink or ballpoint pens. 5. No documents may be marked. 6. Documents are not to be leaned on or have working materials or other items laid on them. 7. Documents are to be returned to staff in the condition and order in which they are received by the researcher."
The MRC's research area, probably in the 1980s. It includes researchers hard at work at desks, drawers of card indexes to help people navigate the collections, and, stuck on the wall at the back, pictures of trade union emblems and a cat poster.
The MRC's first archivist, Richard Storey, standing next to shelves of archives, probably during the 1980s.
Extract from University of Warwick Library Staff Newsletter, December 1973: "Contrary to general opinion the Modern Records Centre has not been established with the deliberate intention of creating new problems for the Library staff. Nor was it designed to provoke archivists, especially in the West Midlands, to a burst into a flurry of protest, although initially it did have this effect. What it has been set up to try to achieve occupied a 20-page submission to the Leverhulme Trust. ... Nothwithstanding the archive preservation work carried out by a countrywide network of local record offices and by such long-established specialist national centres as the British Library of Political and Economic Science, the proposers of the scheme to the Leverhulme Trust, Dr George Bain (SSRC Industrial Relations Research Unit), Professor Royden Harrison (Centre for the Study of Social History), Professor Malcolm Anderson (Department of Politics) and Professor K.G. Cowling (Centre for Industrial Economic and Business Research), supported by the Librarian were able to present a convincing case for the need to supplement the search and preservation activity in respect of original sources for historical research in the fields of politics, industrial relations and in particular British labour history."
"Contrary to general opinion the Modern Records Centre has not been established with the deliberate intention of creating new problems for the Library staff"
Strong #ArchiveBeginnings for the MRC in 1973. We've grown hugely in 51 years thanks to the work & support of friends & colleagues #Archive30
Photograph of the reading room at Leyton Reference Library, 1950. From VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom.
Reading room at Leyton Reference Library 1950. The collections included a wealth of photographs, documents & printed sources for local history research, now held by us. We still have some of the filing cabinets, but hats & flowers no longer appear on our study tables! #ArchiveBeginnings #Archive30
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We started as the German School Museum in 1876, primarily as an exhibition of the latest teaching aids & books, to give teachers the opportunity to see and test these items before recommending them for purchase. Next year we will be celebrating our 150th anniversary. 🤩
Uncover @dmuleicester.bsky.social roots for @arascot.bsky.social #Archive30! 🎨✨ Discover #ArchiveBeginnings in our online exhibition: buff.ly/UNFzApQ – from its start as a College of Art in 1870 to the vibrant #DMU155 of today! #dmuforlife #visitleicester #dmuhistory @librarydmu.bsky.social
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Where it all started....seems like a world away. The museum has been open for 3 years in May and we have had our archive space for 2. Not sure how we managed before without an archive space...those shelves are almost full 😜
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