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I love ephemera. But as a former rare books curator and special collections librarian, I love the durable just as much (think early printed books, made on low acid rag paper, which are often in better condition than more acidic books that are centuries younger).
There is a dance between permanence and impermanence in my work as a historian: Not everything can be saved, not all stories from the past are available for us to access in the present. We’ve lost more than we have. But we still have a lot, too.
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