One year after the flood, hundreds of cardboard boxes containing (almost) the entire Appalshop Archive collections of audiovisual media have been moved to Iron Mountain, a climate controlled storage facility in a former iron mine inside a mountain in Boyers, Pennsylvania. We are grateful to Iron Mountain for extending the life of this archive through financial support, cold storage, digital preservation, and support for upgrading our website.
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Most of the media in the archive remains “trapped” on obsolete formats, frozen in time but unable to be heard or seen by the public without being digitized. A lot of this media also sustained flood damage, which puts it on a quicker timeline of physical deterioration. This opportunity to store these materials in a stable environment and accelerate the cleaning and digitizing process is a big step towards sharing these sounds, images and stories with the world.
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