<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><b>The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History</b></font><div><h2 class="gmail-subtitle-lg gmail-item-subtitle" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:500;line-height:28px;color:rgb(56,44,20);margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:-0.01em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">Thousands of hours of Marion Stokes’s personal recordings will now be digitized, one tape at a time.</font></h2><div class="gmail-article-byline-dateline" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:14px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.12em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-article-byline" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;color:rgb(56,44,20);margin-right:10px">BY <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/users/noor-al-samarrai?view=articles" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(56,44,20);text-decoration-line:none;margin-right:10px">NOOR AL-SAMARRAI</a></span> <div class="gmail-article-byline-date" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block">APRIL 29, 2019 </div></font></div><div class="gmail-article-byline-dateline" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:14px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.12em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail-article-byline-date" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"><br></div></font></div><div class="gmail-article-byline-dateline" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:14px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.12em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span class="gmail-section-start-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1em;letter-spacing:0.12em;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">ABOUT 71,000 VHS AND BETAMAX </span><span style="font-size:19px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none">cassettes are sitting in boxes, stacked 50-to-a-pallet in the Internet Archive’s physical storage facility in Richmond, California, waiting to be digitized. The tapes are not in chronological order, or really any order at all. They got a little jumbled as they were transferred. First recorded in Marion Stokes’s home in the Barclay Condominiums in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, the tapes had been distributed among nine additional apartments she purchased solely for storage purposes during her life. Later, they passed on to her children, into storage, and finally to the California-based archive. Although no one knew it at the time, the recordings Stokes made from 1975 until </span><a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/philly/obituary.aspx?pid=161826563" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:19px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none">her death in 2012</a><span style="font-size:19px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none"> are the only comprehensive collection preserving this period in television media history.</span> <div class="gmail-article-byline-date" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"><br></div></font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/">https://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/</a> (published every other Wednesday) , <a href="http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2019/may/050319-2.htm">http://aldirect.ala.org/sites/default/al_direct/2019/may/050319-2.htm</a> and <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-television-news-archive">https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-television-news-archive</a></div><div><br></div><div> Submissions are welcome at <a href="https://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/submit2019">https://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/submit2019</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></em><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><em><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">diedre08@gmail.com</span></em></a></div>
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