A depository containing historical records and documents

Usage examples of archives.

A letter has been found in the archives of the New York Museum of Natural History that may help explain the grisly charnel discovered in lower Manhattan early last week.

This desire, and others analogous to it, are given in the procès-verbaux of many of the primary assemblies (Archives Nationales, B.

Meillan, "Mémoires," 72: "The archives of Bordeaux once contained the acts passed by seventy-two departments, all of which adhered to measures nearly the same as those indicted in our documents.

At Annecy the women have cut down the liberty pole and burnt the archives of the club and commune.

Moreover, why should he care about it, since his project or reform might end up in the archives.

To give their brutalities the semblance of right, they improvise two pompous demonstrations, first, the sudden manufacture of a paper constitution, which molders away in their archives, and next, the scandalous farce of a hollow and compulsory plebiscite.

After warming up his intellect and heart with a bottle of wine, we get rid of him by sending him to inspect the archives-room, along with my son and Bambinet.

They seemed to say to all these bloody menials: 'You may slaughter us when you please, but you cannot hinder us in being aimable'"-Archives Nationales, F.

Nora had never been to the Archives before—she did not, in fact, know anybody who ever had—and as she descended deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Museum, she wondered if perhaps she had made a wrong turn somewhere.

The Archives used to be open to everybody, but now we’ve been restricted to Museum staff.

After what seemed an interminable journey, they arrived at a door set into the plastered rear wall of the Archives, with a small window of glass and metal meshing.

And then this morning, when I went down to check on some more Shottum material that had turned up, I learn that orders had come down for some conservation work in the Archives.

He had hoped the earlier removal of the offending materials from the Archives would have quieted things down.

Kelly, that you brought non-Museum personnel into the Archives, in direct violation of the rules of this Museum.

They relate to the Museum’s security, to the integrity of its collections and archives, and especially its reputation.