Place
Archives
Boxes, order, and the ethical problem of who gets to read a private past.
They sit with history, libraries, and the oral history that produces the next box.
Archival people like provenance: where a thing came from, and who touched it.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside archives reads “where a thing came from.” It tends to meet history, public libraries, and oral history.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit. Read it beside archives: Walking as a way people have thought, traveled, and disagreed.