I have to say, my immediate response is to ask why they were considered
worth preserving and cataloguing at all!
Susan Healy
writing in a personal not PRO capacity
-----Original Message-----
From: jenny moran [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 July 2002 17:29
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: And the winner is...
I know it's not Friday but I thought I'd share these with you all.
In the category of Most Inept Piece of Cataloguing
"Photo of family, nineteenth century" turned out to include Queen Victoria
and
the Kaiser
and Most Useless Index Reference:
"Letter, not dated, illegible"
Any other nominations?
Jenny Moran
Nottinghamshire Archives
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