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An Archivist Sneezes on a Priceless Document. Then What? Olivia Campbell © Luis Davilla / Cover / Getty A year and a half ago, I found myself in an archive room at the London School of Economics, staring at 150-year-old documents complete with swirly handwriting and a red-wax seal. My mind flicked back to a few weeks earlier, when I’d gotten one of my occasional nosebleeds, and I had a random yet horrifying thought: What if my nose starts bleeding on one of these irreplaceable pages? What would happen if I ruined them? I was doing research for a book I was writing about t...

Each structure is digitally documented using a laser scanner that emits infrared beams to capture a 3D model of the home. The images are uploaded to a database maintained by the National Park Service that researchers hope can be used by historians and schools to tell the story of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and their ancestors. “These dwellings were not meant to last 100 years. Part of the reason they still exist is because people lived there relatively recently. But that history has been underserved,” said Sreya Charkraborty, a research associate for the project. “There are stories ...

Preservation experts with the National Park Service are creating a digital database of existing sharecropper and slave dwellings across the Southeast.

Mayor London Breed intends to nominate an out man for the vacant seat on the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission.

Mayor London Breed intends to nominate an out man for the vacant seat on the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission. Jason Wright, who is LGBT according to the mayor's office, would be the only out person on the seven-member advisory panel should he be approved by the Board of Supervisors. Commissioner Jonathan Pearlman, a gay man, is presently serving on the commission but his term has expired and Breed did not renominate him or Andrew Hyland, the other out member. Wright has been nominated to Seat 3, which is designated for an architectural historian. Wright has a background in both...