Rex Wailes Collection. French windmills
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Publisher | Milling & Grain |
Year of publication | 2022 October |
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Medium | Digital |
Edition | 1 |
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Scope & content | By Amanda Knight, Volunteer, Rex Wailes Collection, Mills Archive, UK A quest to begin a new career as an Archivist led me to seek some hands-on experience at an accredited archive before embarking on the recommended qualifications; and who better to ask than the Mills Archive? Happily, running true to form as a recipient of the prestigious Queens Award for Voluntary Service, the team at the Mills Archive kindly welcomed me aboard as a volunteer in September 2021 and since then I have spent much of my time in digitising and cataloguing images from the Rex Wailes Collection. Rex Wailes’ extensive collection of images of French windmills arrived on my desk in a small, unassuming but weighty, cardboard box. Inside were 52 neatly labelled envelopes containing a vast array of prints, negatives drawings and postcards of more than 50 French windmills…Read more. |