Posted by admin on Jul 22, 2013
One of the oldest, extant, dedicated photographic archives in the world, the Barnardo’s photographic archive, currently housed in Barkingside, East London is under significant threat of destruction following its digitisation.
Over the next few months, Barnardo’s will be having its entire photographic archive digitised in Manchester. Due to space issues at Barnardo’s, the organisation will then destroy the original images unless an archive or museum can be persuaded to save these important historic documents. The material consists of about of shelving around fifteen feet in length holding archival boxes about 8 inches deep and about 20 inches high.
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