Bury the Archive: A Look into Analog and Digital Time

Capsules

Sarah Toton, Emory UniversityMedia in Transition 6, April 2009

Crypt of Civilization. From “Preserving Our History in a Tomb Popular Science ” (Dec, 1938), 110-113.Toton, MiT6, April 2009

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Image from: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. The story of the Westinghouse Time Capsule. 1938.

From the Prelinger Archives.

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Westinghouse Time Capsule Sealing Ceremony, 1939 New York World’s Fair.

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MIT Class with the Cyclotron, circa 1999.

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•Good cultural preservation is totalizing cultural preservation.

 

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•Good cultural preservation is totalizing cultural preservation.

•Culture can be fixed in a place in time. 

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•Good cultural preservation is totalizing cultural preservation.

•Culture can be fixed in a place in time.

•Culture is best conveyed through products, not cultural processes.

 

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Cultural preservation is the work of universities or corporations.