Why keep a family archive?
Comic by Lucy
But why should we care about this one family? Yamashita is a common Japanese name. So is this the [Insert generic name here] family archive? Why should people keep their own papers and ephemera? Beth Doyle writes, "Our goal as librarians and as conservators is to put collections in the hands of people who want to use them, to help make connections between ideas and people who will take those ideas and create new and wonderful things. We are here to make sure that happens today, tomorrow, and decades from now."
The act of keeping (and preserving) is a sentimental one. Or if your family member is famous enough a "historical" one. The tangible evidence of your family history(a pressed flower in a diary or a photograph) can confound your own constructed images or build more.
To see a comic made by Lucy that involves this process of discovery/ revelation through the archive.
The act of keeping (and preserving) is a sentimental one. Or if your family member is famous enough a "historical" one. The tangible evidence of your family history(a pressed flower in a diary or a photograph) can confound your own constructed images or build more.
To see a comic made by Lucy that involves this process of discovery/ revelation through the archive.