Collections · A guide to the archive
Use museum descriptions, oral-history indexes and responsible quotation guidance to follow a traceable source.
Begin with a named object or a described interview and record what you can actually inspect. A donor account, an institutional caption and a full recording are different forms of evidence. These guides and essays preserve those distinctions, including missing identifiers and unavailable recordings. Follow the linked sources before combining an object’s history with somebody else’s remembered experience.
An intentional selection
Begin with a named donation and distinguish objects, photographs and their descriptions. Build a traceable research note without inventing an accession number or a missing object history.
Find a relevant witness account while recording which material you actually consulted. Distinguish the Amritsar interview index, Delhi project descriptions and access to the recording itself.
Distinguish public excerpts from research access, read the archive’s current conditions, and preserve an interview’s context and permissions.
Keep the speaker, recording context and exact passage visible. Respectful quotation preserves meaning and distinguishes memory from later interpretation.
An inherited key can support an object history when it is linked to people, places and a documented chain of custody. Its meaning should not outrun what is known about the particular object.
Partition Museum objects show how practical belongings and keepsakes could carry memories of flight, family and lives rebuilt.
How we use sources, explain uncertainty and correct mistakes.
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