Photo Archivist Gifts

'For me, an experience just isn't real until it's been digitized.'

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

Photos of Queen Elizabeth II

Photographer Phone: 'Okay everybody, SMILE!'

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

"Here's the baby's first birthday, her second, her third, look at her gifts..."

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

"I remember that game of Spin-the-Bottle like it was yesterday. It was love at firstspin."

Catalogue of little books.

Bobbies library of jeans

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

"I think I'll keep a diary..."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

'Here comes the Papa-razzi again...'

Attic of hopes and dreams...

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

'Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?'

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

"Could you speak a little louder? I'm recording this."

Today's alpha-lesson is "Keep a journal." The average person lets life pass them by. The events of their lives fade into nothingness. An alpha knows that long after they're gone, their thoughts and experiences will be of great interest to historians. That's not an original thought. I read it in the papyrus Randus Maximus XIV left in a safe deposit box after he helped conquer Judea.

'Lost Diary'

"I've recorded every noise my baby makes, so that when he's older I can play it back and he can tell me what he was trying to say. . .!"

'The last Doctor to go into medical records has still not been found.'

Magic Ring to gain entry into Tolkien Archive

Dive in Archive.

''The Thinker' is an outdated concept.'

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Jewish Hall of Nachas

"I let go of all my earthly attachments, but there's one I can't seem to shake."

'More pictures of your kids. Wow, they've really grown since yesterday.'