n.a receptacle used to house archival materialsNational Archives 1939, 10Each thousand feet or reel of film is placed in a specially ventilated container. If the film is of the acetate or safety type, the container rests on a steel shelf within one of these vaults; but if it is of the inflammable type, the container is placed in a drawer, which is then inserted in a separate insulated compartment in a fireproof cabinet within a vault.National Archives and SAA 1941, 26If containers that open on top are stacked in tiers in storage, consultation of the records in them will be inconvenient if not impossible. Shelving can be provided for the boxes but the cost of this equipment may make it preferable to use a different type of container. The single-drawer steel transfer case, though relatively expensive, is so designed as to make possible the servicing of records in bulk storage.Kimberly 1950, 233Archivists and others concerned with the preservation of records have long searched for a record container which would combine low cost, light weight, ready accessibility, and good performance in service with a reasonable degree of protection against heat, fire, and water. Sheet metal, cardboard, wood, and various combinations of these materials have been used in the fabrication of containers according to a variety of designs, both simple and complex.Eltzroth 1974, 114–115Excellent substitutes for glassine envelopes are the polyethylene containers and sleeves. Cellulose acetate containers are also usually satisfactory, although they may, under high humidity, cause print and negative emulsions to stick or develop a condition which looks somewhat like partial ferrotyping (portions of the image being transferred onto the material in contact with the photograph, which dulls and hastens deterioration of the original).Terreo 1984, 65The posters were placed in large map folders alphabetically by name of circus. Artifacts, such as a very large gorilla doll and a conical clown hat, were placed in oversize containers constructed by the staff and sent to the oversize section.Ritzenthaler et al. 2006, 67Check for written evidence on the photographs (backs and fronts) and on their containers (boxes, folders, envelopes, mats, and frames).Seo and Zanish-Belcher 2006, 64Other premade structures such as containers for rolled items, textile boxes, clamshell boxes, and photo-storage boxes can all be fitted with fillers, dividers, or padding to provide customized storage for irregularly shaped objects or to solve multiformat collection-storage problems.Hackbart-Dean, Agne, and Mosbo 2010, 40It soon became clear that we needed to survey all materials from each unit, box by box, and create an item by item shelf list showing the name of each collection, the record group, manuscript number or accession number, the container type (record storage cartons, clamshells, document flip-tops, etc.), the individual container number, an estimate of potential growth, the current location, the destination, and any notes (such as preservation concerns or additional work needed before moving).Meissner 2019, 115The extent of the materials can incorporate a number of helpful measurements: overall volume (20 linear feet), number of containers or items (4 boxes, 3 map folders, 5 phonodiscs), and physical and technical characteristics (27 audio files on 1 CD-ROM disc; 14 bound ledgers in oversize box).Oestreicher 2020, 67A container is the top level, such as a box, folder, shelf, drawer, cabinet, or other type of case that houses materials.Joffrion and Cloonan 2020, 117Cassette tapes (also known as “compact cassettes” and “cassettes”) are compact analog tapes seated in plastic containers.Cianci 2023, 128Scarce’s artworks are on occasion fashioned as archives or contain reclaimed archival materials that have succumbed to entropic effects of spacetime distancing, in defiance of their original colonial contexts. . . . Works such as Oppression, repression (Family Portrait) (2004), The Collected (2011), Blood on the Wattle (2013) and Remembering Royalty (2018) include materials of the archive, often use containers of different kinds (boxes, drawers, jars, cases, even a Perspex coffin).
