Lazarus Archive · LZ-12076

The Kowalski family archive

The Kowalski family, 2007–2010. Personal archive for smartphones.

Description

Photographs, home videos, letters and documents of the Kowalski family, gathered over 4 years.

Provenance

Deposited by the family after the creator’s death. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8d1577c6ca3f8ca859b35ff0061c763cb98b692a7fa6216457dd348ac58d31ff
Last verified
Sep 6, 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: The Kowalski family, The Kowalski family archive (2007–2010). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12076.

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