Lazarus Archive · LZ-31197

The Silva family archive

The Silva family, 2003–2008. Personal archive for Windows 95 and 98.

Description

Photographs, home videos, letters and documents of the Silva family, gathered over 6 years.

Provenance

Deposited by the estate, with written instructions on access. The label reads ‘Don’t lend’. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
28bd2e59abe6ba0a586a049d67cf181000baf538bf6a04cb4dfa93f2bf3e948b
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 Silva family, The Silva family archive (2003–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31197.

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