[Personal_archives] [Personal_archPamela Millerives] FW: Messyproposition

[Jeremy Heil]

My all-time favourite - a 1957 pamphlet on what 
to do in the event of a Hydrogen Bomb explosion, 
accompanied by a nuclear bomb effects computer 
(they sit in my desk drawer, just in 
case...although I'm sure they wouldn't have been 
much use in the event of a random flare 
explosion!).  And then there was the 1970's mail 
order porn catalogue hidden among files on sports statistics.

Any messages left on the answering machine, Marcel?

Jeremy

At 10:44 AM 13/01/2009, Barriault, Marcel wrote:
>Let's see... A filled-in coupon for free thong 
>underwear for men, an answering machine and a used band-aid.
>
>M.
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
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>[mailto:personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] 
>De la part de Hobbs, Catherine
>Envoyé : 13 janvier 2009 10:01
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>Objet : Re: [Personal_archives] 
>[Personal_archPamela Millerives] FW: Messyproposition
>
>Which begs the question... "What was the 
>strangest thing you've found in a personal fonds?".
>
>(Without breaking any confidences of course) For 
>me it has to be the live flare found in the 
>personal fonds of a writer for which we had to 
>call in the bomb defusal team. Or, wait a 
>minute... I did find a caul pressed between 
>pages of a family bible (neither of which were 
>accepted as part of the fonds).
>
>My colleague here at LAC found a scientific 
>sample of porcupine tuberculosis which seemed to 
>relate to the writer's brother.
>
>Aren't all of these indications which serve to 
>show the individuality of personal fonds 
>creators and the way in which many of them do 
>not make any distinction between the types of 
>personal property which the professionals divvy 
>up into "archives", "museums", "art", "memorabilia" and "trash".
>
>Catherine
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pamela Miller [mailto:pamela.miller at mcgill.ca]
>Sent: January 13, 2009 9:18 AM
>To: Hobbs, Catherine
>Subject: RE: [Personal_archives] FW: Messy proposition
>
>Lovely idea, especially when I consider the 
>things I've found in incoming archives, like a 
>surveyor's chain or chicken feathers, or worse...
>Pam
>
>Pamela Miller
>History of Medicine Librarian
>Osler Library, McGill University
>514-398-4475 ext. 09861
>fax 514-398-5747
>-----Original Message-----
>From: personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu 
>[mailto:personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] 
>On Behalf Of Hobbs, Catherine
>Sent: January 13, 2009 8:43 AM
>To: personal_archives at mailman.yale.edu
>Subject: [Personal_archives] FW: Messy proposition
>
>
> > I raise this only with a hint of irony> ...> 
> . > ...> consider the possibilities for a 
> discussion of sites of creation and original 
> order in personal archives at the March 
> conference in Britain on the topic of "mess".
> > http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/about/mess.htm
> > Happy New Year,
> > Catherine Hobbs (Chair, SISPA)
> >
> > Catherine Hobbs,
> > Archivist, Literary Archives (English-language) / Archiviste, Archives
> > littéraires de langue anglaise Documentary Heritage Collection Sector
> > / Secteur de la collection du patrimoine documentaire Library and
> > Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada Place de la Cité,
> > Room / Piece 598, 550, boul. de la Cité, Gatineau (QC), K1A 0N4
> > catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca Téléphone /Telephone 819-934-8331
> > Télécopieur / Facsimile 819-934-8333
> >
> > Gouvernement du Canada / Government of Canada
> > www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
> >
> >
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