Description
Photographs, home videos, letters and documents of the Shaw family, gathered over 6 years.
Provenance
Deposited by the family after the creator’s death. The dye layer had begun to fail at the outer edge; the last sectors came from a second read in a different drive. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
dbdcd63f5fe9bd3c98c37e019b59521ea9773d55a4ab5c10e93f6937bbaa79f7- Last verified
- Oct 13, 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 Shaw family, The Shaw family archive (2000–2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25714.