15th December 2011, 04:57 PM
Quote:bane of my life is archives where the museums seem to have 'mislaid' large chunks even when we know they were depositedStaff turnover - or straight loss without replacement - isn't helping. I've even come across this at my entry level of research, looking for prehistoric pottery in a museum archive. It was mentioned in the HER and the new curator was very clear on where it *ought* to have been on the shelves, but there were just gaps where the boxes had been. The exiting curator clearly must've moved it or loaned it for study, but there were no written records relating to it which could be found at the time.