Description: The dispositions in this schedule pertain to records created in typical circumstances; any unique situations may require consultation with the Archives and Information Management Team.
Description: The preservation photocopy, a reformatting format, arose in the mid-20th century when new forms of business documents - such as those produced by thermal printing (e.g. faxes and receipts) - suffered from “inherent vice,” or instability that included fading and other signs of deterioration.The National Archives and Records Administration recommended the use of copying by the
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who
Description: We thought our work was done when a social media follower helped us identify our popular “unidentified male model” as German naturalist Emil Bessels. Then we discovered he may have murdered his captain during the 1871–73 Polaris Expedition.