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I worked at McCall’s Magazine in the 90s; as an editorial assistant I was in charge of crumbling archives from late 1800s to the late 1990s. Dear souls let me tell you about orange juice concentrate, gelatin, hard boiled eggs and marshmallows. Open up a tin of salmon and gather round.
green 50s jello ham
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What happened to the archives?
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I have no idea, and I really REALLY wish I did. I wanted to edit a book comparing Eleanor Rosevelt’s and Coco Chanel’s columns (spoiler Coco was kind of a fascist).
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So many publications heedlessly trashed so much history when they trashed their archives.
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not just publications. I worked at an academic library in the 90s that was gleefully pulping its newly "digitized" collections.
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Gleeful “we can stop spending our endowment on humidity controls!”