state archives

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Last year, it attained a valuation of $2.96 billion and recently finished two years of digitizing maps and other documents from the state archives in neighboring Zambia, where it hit pay dirt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

While conducting research in the Prussian state archives in Berlin in the 1990s, he chanced upon the details of a “small vortex of turbulence” in Königsberg.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The pieces of unembroidered fabric were discovered by historians in state archives in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany as they sifted through the collection of German textile specialist Karl Schlabow.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

At one point, the state archives even asked their landlord, the state’s Department of Enterprise Services, to build a tiny dam in a corner of the building’s lowest-level floor.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2023

To Signor Cesare Guasti, of the state archives of Florence, I am indebted for careful copies of important letters of Lorenzo Pucci, which he had made for me.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand