Lazarus Archive · LZ-05172

Digital papers of Karin Virtanen

Karin Virtanen, 1997–2004. Personal archive for Windows 95 and 98.

Description

Photographs, letters, diaries and working files of a potter from East Redby.

Provenance

Deposited by the family after the creator’s death. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. About 90 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
fb362f6c88a885a6840639e69d3bee27e6552cb31e391ded764a6ee37c0a81d9
Last verified
Sep 17, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
TIFF, PDF/A-2b and FLAC, with the originals kept
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

Reading-room copies are migrated to TIFF, PDF/A-2b and FLAC, with the originals kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Karin Virtanen, Digital papers of Karin Virtanen (1997–2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05172.

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