Lazarus Archive · LZ-40049

Digital papers of Wanjiru Costa

Wanjiru Costa, 1998–2000. Personal archive for Windows.

Description

Photographs, letters, diaries and working files of a nurse from Eastdale Bay.

Provenance

Deposited by Westhurst Heritage Trust. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
280c0b49d43478cf9ee97589a8adcafd8850198eb8b3cb069bcff70040f42018
Last verified
Oct 19, 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: Wanjiru Costa, Digital papers of Wanjiru Costa (1998–2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40049.

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