Phew, I did my first ever guided tour on our archives on friday and now when it's sunday I can say I'm pretty much recovered 😂 Students are a lot easier group to lead than a group of mostly pensioners!

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Yesterday's archive find: the christmas peace declaration formula notes, written by the Turku magistrate's secretary in 1827 from memory after the original documents were burned in town fire. Super cool find!

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Archivist's life, part 361: Leather dust 😫

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Today at work: not everything in archives are preserved forever - in fact, some are discarded after a relatively short period of time. Today getting rid of old voting ballots. Though I wasn't deliberately looking at them, this caught my eye and made my day.

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Archival awesomeness, 19th cent. books with marbled edges. Just municipal admistration, but in such pretty covers ❤️
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Microfilms, ancient technique really but very much still in use. Today at work checking out microfilmed 19th century construction drawings. Being an archivist is really quite nice on days like this!
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