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Black Archives Co

CTL-E-0797 · Archive · collection · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Renata Cherlise's crowdsourced archive of mid-20th-century Black-life photographs (begun on Tumblr, then Instagram; 554,000 followers April 2024; book 2023) - a 13+ year archive whose primary home is a rented platform with no institutional export documented.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-049; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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Record CTL-E-0797 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 1 source · CTL research: PRESERVE-001.
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