"When I started working in an archive, I had a vague vision of what that would look like. Mostly, it involved carefully handling rare, centuries old books, painstakingly cataloging collections, and rehousing the materials in fancy grey acid free boxes. I didn’t expect to become a photography detective. But over the past three months, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing."
Adventures in Archival Detective Work
How a digitization project turned into a months-long search
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April 20, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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