February 2012

Taking Care of the Treasures: Archives Basics

Now that we've taken a look at a few of our archival treasures, it's time to learn how to take care of them.  As promised, with this post I'm starting a how-to series on church archives beginning with basic preservation practices.  I encourage all congregations in the Diocese of Olympia to maintain their own church archives and I'll be featuring several of them in this series of posts.

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Seattle, Trinity Parish Archives Read more »

Treasures in the Archives

When the Rev. Dr. John McCarty kept a journal of his travels in the Missionary Territories of Oregon and Washington, he did us a great service.  For if John McCarty, and others like him, had not kept journals and diaries, written letters, made drawings or taken pictures documenting their time and place, we would simply not know what their lives were like. 

Vancouver, St. Luke Read more »

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