Mission Statement

Preserving The Past, LLC is committed to providing best-practice methods in the preservation and access of film, video, audio, photograph, paper and 3-D objects collections. By honoring this commitment, we are preserving our clients’ legacies for future generations while contributing to the preservation of our cultural heritage for students, educators, researchers, historians and society as a whole.

Value

Preserving The Past, LLC works within the public and private sectors across clientele such as university and special collections archivists, librarians, museum personnel, business owners, collectors, creators and individuals to preserve their audiovisual and photographic history, document the stories behind the images and reserve their place in our cultural history.

Belief

We believe that the historically significant collections languishing in warehouses, attics and garages are the tangible thread to our cultural heritage and collective memory. We offer museum-quality services to help our clients gain access to this obsolete media according to preservation standards and capture the stories behind the images—a vital step in preserving legacies.

Philosophy

Adhering to the principles outlined in our mission statement, we are ensuring the permanence of cultural artifacts and personal or oral histories, preparing legacies for hundreds of years and future generations. By acquiring, organizing and making accessible visual materials, the documentary evidence, representative of human behavior, social life and culture, we encourage continued fostering of cultural anthropology for study in the fields of history, family and corporate narratives, language and literature, art, popular culture, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, theology, geography and politics.