Today’s catch is four collections that exist because somebody decided they should: a box of Linotype promotional reels handed over for digitising in 2011, the spreadsheets and word processors nobody saved because nobody played them, and a map of Richmond with its own historical photographs pinned to the spots where they were taken. The fourth is a catalogue of everyone else doing exactly this.
It started with a box of Linotype promo reels handed over in 2011
→ printingfilms.com
Abandonware preservation for the spreadsheets nobody thought worth saving
→ stonetools.ghost.io
Historical photos pinned to their exact spot on a live Richmond map
→ yesterdays.maprva.org
A meta-archive cataloguing other people's obsessively kept archives
→ archiveofarchives.com