Bundle Nobody asked them to keep it Archives kept by one person, not an institution, of exactly what everyone else threw away.
Bundle All of it, indexed and given away Collections scanned, catalogued and handed over whole, for free.
Bundle Somebody counted all of them Catalogues that went all the way to the end, from every plug to every owl in a towel.
Bundle The complete run Media collected whole, from supercuts and golden-age comics to a year of ocean photography.
Bundle Unreadable, until it wasn't Five things nobody could read, and the people who found a way back in.
Intertapes Found cassettes from around the world, played back
Ansel Adams' National Parks Murals 226 photographs for a wall that was never built, free to download
John Margolies Roadside America Archive 11,710 free photos of the teapot gas stations and doughnut shops America paved over
Snewpapers Browse three centuries of digitised newspapers, 1730s through the 1960s
Finds
- Read Rare Forty-odd internal memos and out-of-print business books, free to read or borrow
- The Mack Truck Museum A century of build records, and the Megatron from the third Transformers film
- A New Yorker State of Mind Reading every issue of The New Yorker, in order, since 1925 — currently somewhere in 1936
- Intertapes Found cassettes from around the world, played back
- The Archive of Archives A meta-archive cataloguing other people's obsessively kept archives
- Printing Films It started with a box of Linotype promo reels handed over in 2011
- Ansel Adams' National Parks Murals 226 photographs for a mural the war cancelled, free at full size
- MacPacker Browse an archive like a folder and drag out only the file you wanted
- Tron: Legacy (Recording Sessions) 67 tracks of a score being built, assembled by someone who cared
- A History of Menus is a Menu of History What America's oldest surviving restaurant menus reveal about class, gender, and technology
- Snewpapers Browse three centuries of digitised newspapers, 1730s through the 1960s