No Longer Absent Series (Pt.1)

Hanging in the Archive

Carmen Lizardo | Kingston, New York, USA 

Collections are a product of the interest of the founders and the community of people who contribute to them. Archives, by the nature of how they are assembled, are naturally incomplete and reflect systemic inequities of the communities from which they come. Historical societies were formed by “concerned elite citizens during the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first two decades of the nineteenth century,” wrote Sara Lawrence in History of Historical Societies in the U.S.

See next collage for more….