Thursday, February 09, 2023

Marion Stokes a remarkable guerrilla archivist

 Marion Stokes(1929-2012) was a Philadelphia librarian  and social rights activist who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn't stop until her death in 2012.The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV.They are being digitized by the TV archive.

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