Contribute
Material reaches the archive in exactly three ways. The differences come down to two questions: who keeps the rights, and who pays. Pick the door that fits what you're holding.
01 · DONATE
You have historical photographs and you'd like them preserved and public. We digitize at our expense and catalog them properly. In return, the originals and the rights come to us — the one arrangement that actually keeps them reachable. You're credited in every record, permanently.
Start a submission →02 · ESTATE
You're an executor, an heir, or an institution holding a whole body of work — and the decision is larger than a web form. We start with a conversation, not a contract, and move at the pace the material deserves.
Begin a conversation →03 · DIGITIZE
You don't want to give anything away — you just want good scans. We digitize at archival quality and send everything back. You keep every right, and nothing enters the public archive. This one you pay for.
Get a quote →If you're not sure which door is yours, take the estate one. A conversation costs nothing and sorts it out faster than guessing.
An archive is just the collections that someone bothered to hand over in time.