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PROJECT / WCH-18B / RESTRICTED

Archive 18B

Preservation and provenance research on a mixed-format collection with incomplete acquisition history.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Maya Ellison
Research Scientist

Started 2018

FIELD / FACILITY SITES

Archive 18B

METHODS

provenance reconstruction

material imaging

catalog reconciliation

EQUIPMENT / SYSTEMS

multispectral document camera

controlled-light imaging bench

environmental storage

RECENT ACTIVITY

2026-09-18 — independent-repository comparison set retained

2026-08-14 — collections imaging run completed

2026-07-30 — accession index reconciled

FUNDING

Wheelock University
WURI-2025-12 · $360,000

RELATED OUTPUT

WCH-284 Archive 18B: Provenance Audit and Preservation RecommendationsWCH-358 Persistence of Contradictory Provenance in Independently Maintained Archives

NEWS

2026-07-28Archive 18B completes summer imaging cycleArchives