Geek love (and grey boxes)
Anyone who has a history researching background — and is a certified geek — can appreciate my joy! My order of Hollinger boxes have arrived! Those lovely dove-grey archival boxes with the metal fittings on the corners. (I realized my collection of Universalist ephemera needed extra care.)
Good for church archives, of course. Quilters use them, too.
I was happy with Genealogical Storage Products, which is either a contractor for, or is owned by, the Hollinger Corporation itself. And the prices were the best I found.
11 August 2005 at 8:08 am
I just compared a few prices here with Bill Cole (of whom i havent bought anything in years due to high prices), and was surprised at the vast price difference…..
8 February 2006 at 9:56 pm
[…] Some of my happiest memories as a child was with my father at the National Archives. Archival boxes — Hollinger boxes — are to me what baseball gloves or fishing poles to others. I wrote about these before but I now have a photo. Good prices, and you can buy single boxes for a small surcharge over what libraries pay. (Buy multiples of five to get the discount.) I could get the tan kind, but Hollinger grey is so soothing; it makes me happy. And I got another shipment today. […]