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archival

[ ahr-kahy-vuhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to archives or valuable records; contained in or comprising such archives or records.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of archival1

First recorded in 1840–50; archive + -al 1
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This project invites viewers to consider what it means for a country to grow, and the advantages and disadvantages linked to that growth, by overlaying archival photographs from the 1940s-60s within current scenes.

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To drive home the project’s intimacy, Macdonald carefully re-creates the couple’s New York apartment, the camera gliding across the space as we hear archival phone conversations.

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Not that he’s got a dearth of it; he’s been creating nearly a “postcard” a day for 30 years, and now has thousands of carefully curated pieces in archival sleeved books.

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The fabrics may have gotten an upgrade, the clothes were now archival instead of just old, but in every purchase I saw all the versions of myself that ever existed.

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Floyd’s big night is real and you can find archival footage of it online, including Floyd’s court side interview with a local sportscaster who describes the player’s success in mystical terms.

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