Lazarus Archive · LZ-20020

The Ellis family archive

The Ellis family, 2001–2004. Personal archive for Windows 95 and 98.

Description

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

Provenance

Deposited by the family after the creator’s death. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
ba545aa5b28a0d34ec34244b37cc14f452a4ba34d87ea099e028af0758466d59
Last verified
Sep 25, 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 Ellis family, The Ellis family archive (2001–2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20020.

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