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Inside the Arizona State Archives
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State Archives Conservationist Jo Anne Martinez-Kilgore shows off some technology used to inspect documents they receive. (Kirsten Dorman/KJZZ)
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The Polly Rosenbaum State Archives and History Building in Phoenix holds centuries of all kinds of records. (Kirsten Dorman/KJZZ)
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State Archives Conservationist Jo Anne Martinez-Kilgore shows the results of carefully controlled humidity used on city plans to open them up from being folded or rolled up. (Kirsten Dorman/KJZZ)
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The Polly Rosenbaum State Archives and History Building in Phoenix holds centuries of all kinds of records. (Kirsten Dorman/KJZZ)
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State Archives Conservationist Jo Anne Martinez-Kilgore sometimes uses a microscope to examine close-up details, like on this photograph. (Kirsten Dorman/KJZZ)
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The Polly Rosenbaum State Archives and History Building in Phoenix holds centuries of all kinds of records. (Kirsten Dorman/KJZZ)
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To celebrate Historic Archives Month, archivists in Phoenix laid out a few of their favorite items. (Kirsten Dorman/KJZZ)
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To celebrate Historic Archives Month, archivists in Phoenix laid out a few of their favorites, including this map dated from 1579. (Kirsten Dorman/KJZZ)
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Using tools from simple metal scrapers to more complex equipment, State Archives Conservationist Jo Anne Martinez-Kilgore and her assistant use sometimes painstaking tasks they document each decision for, like delicately peeling stray tape off this map of Prescott. (Kirsten Dorman/KJZZ)
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