Assessment | Drawer 10

Date: 12 August 2019 Drawer: 10Number of Photographic Cards: 339Number of Loose Photographs: 0Decades Featured: 1930s-1960sSignificant Characteristics: Large number of X-raysUnique Finds: .Prof CFM Saint’s personal stationary (paper)Noteworthy Inscription: “Marble Bones”; “Perforated carcinoma of stomach (leather bottle)”Time Spent: 1.5 hrs Equilibrium The return to the collection is effortless. Everyone at the PLC is there, and …

In the Beginning…

Reading and Rambling The project is daunting. I’m no archivist, I’m no ethnographer. Yet here I am archiving, making notes, and doing this self-indulgent thing of recording everything I do – or, at least, what I will be doing. For the moment, the uncertainty means burying myself in literature. Photographic theory, archival organisation, anthropological methods,… …