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[ahr-kahyv] / ˈɑr kaɪv /


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This display is described as a “tiny slice” of the Huntington’s archive on Otis Reed “Dock” Marston, a historian and river runner who made it his life’s goal to collect information on the Colorado River.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Dr Michael Lambert, a lecturer in medical humanities at Lancaster University, studied hundreds of national and regional archive documents to build a picture of how and why Stephen Holt - and other infants - died.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The Die Zeit and Der Spiegel media outlets quickly launched online tools to help Germans sift the archive.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The University of Utah Seismograph Stations has preserved decades of seismic records, creating a valuable archive for modern analysis.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

The archive reflects the human need to document every deed and directive, to place a veil of administrative tidiness over the disorder of famines and plagues and natural disasters and crimes and wars.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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