As an archivist, Emma Prince often finds herself in dusty museum storage rooms and sometimes-moldy home attics. She and her nearly all-women team of genealogists and historians build archives for museums, schools and other organizations through her St. Louis-based company, Backlog. In her work organizing catalogs and tracking down lost ancestors, Prince also challenges popular …
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History and Genealogy Treasures at the Guinness Storehouse
The Guinness Archive has preserved records and artifacts, dating from 1759, including photos, and 20,000 individual personnel records of past employees giving a glimpse into the history of St. James’s Gate and Guinness staff. The Guinness Archive, housed by the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, collects, preserves, and makes accessible records and artifacts from the formation …
University to Digitise India’s Post-Partition Heritage
A university is set to preserve digitally more than 20,000 pictures, prints and documents from the post-partition period in India. Led by Coventry University, two decades of India’s history, from 1947, will be digitised from a collection housed at Hamilton Studios in Mumbai. The collection contains more than 600,000 objects from nearly a 100 years …