Archives
I am into my archives for this shot of the Records Centre at the Toronto Archives. This large area holds more than 123,000 boxes filled with mostly files but also over 1,000,000 pics and over 5,000 maps along with postcards, diaries, letters, and other papers about the city. The top shelf is 36 feet high and those red machines, called "order pickers", are used to reach all the shelves. The temperature in the room is kept at 21˚C at all times and I assume they have a back-up generator since the archives are in an area that was without power for a few days during our ice storm over the Christmas week.
16 comments:
Wow! You needed this big a place to store all of your photos...I'm impressed! ;)
Very interesting!
Stay warm!
Amazing what we want to hold on to in this life.
impressive!
Makes one wonder what could be "lost and forgotten" among all of those boxes.
Oh my, what a room. It reminds me of something out of a movie.
Wow! I am overwhelmed Andy.
I'd hate to see the Oxford Uni one
The Archives needs a museum to display (instead of store) many of these artifacts.
WOW!
That is alot of paperwork.
I am glad that there are such things as archives, but I wouldn't want to work there.
I never realize the extent that the city goes to preserve their past. I'm amazed.
That's how history is maintained, can't afforf to let that particular area get damp!
Oh my goodness! I hope nothing gets misplaced there. How would you ever find it again?
Saving "treasures" :))
I often deal with archives as part of the day job. Human endeavour never fails to impress!
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