an archive of salvaged works

salvaged.work is an archive for texts, audio, and images that have languished within the confines of analogue media. The archive pays homage to these works through curation and digital restoration so that they may be shared with a wider, modern audience. Where a work was published in another language, the archive provides a full English reading edition alongside the original text. This project is independently supported and has no commercial interest in the materials shared. About the archive and its editorial method →

47 articles·22 books in the reading room·38 creators

the reading room 22 books · original + english Every book in the archive that can be read cover to cover, in its original language and in English.

sound & performance 13 items Experimental music of the postwar decades, on record and in print.

the deep past 6 items Cave bears, church graffiti, and ten thousand years of Nordic folk art.

the jorn library 19 items Asger Jorn and his orbit, from the wartime Helhesten circle to the Situationist years.

the pamphlet wars 3 items Clandestine pamphlets and black books from Prussia in the age of Napoleon.

open a drawer one random item from the archive Let the archive choose. A different drawer every time.

recently salvaged

New Firebrands - Marginalia on the Tract - Confidential Letters on the Internal Affairs of the Prussian Court since the Death of Frederick II

New Firebrands - Marginalia on the Tract - Confidential Letters on the Internal Affairs of the Prussian Court since the Death of Frederick II is the first collected volume of a political journal issued anonymously in 1807 by the Prussian official Friedrich von Cölln, gathering the first three of the eighteen instalments that eventually appeared under a false Amsterdam and Cologne imprint. Written in the months after the destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstedt, the three parts combine eyewitness correspondence, polemical essays on the army and the state, fiscal argument, reportage from occupied Berlin, and a register naming the officials who had received confiscated Polish estates.

Added: July 15, 2026

The True Jacobins in the Prussian State, or - A Documentary Account of the Wicked Intrigues and Fraudulent Conduct in Office of Two Prussian Ministers of State

The True Jacobins in the Prussian State, or - A Documentary Account of the Wicked Intrigues and Fraudulent Conduct in Office of Two Prussian Ministers of State is an anonymous political dossier published in 1801 with the false imprint "Everywhere and nowhere," compiled by the Prussian excise official Hans von Held. Across 256 pages it reprints thirty-three official documents from the archives of South Prussia and Silesia, connected by unsigned editorial notes, in order to accuse the Silesian provincial minister Karl Georg von Hoym and the Grand Chancellor Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck of protecting a favourite, destroying a domain lessee, and lying to their king. Held bound twelve copies in black and sent them to the court, and the book has been known ever since as the Schwarzes Buch, the black book.

Added: July 15, 2026

Materials for the History of Polish Territories under Prussian Administration

Materials for the History of Polish Territories under Prussian Administration is an anonymous polemical collection of historical documents published at Leipzig in 1861, assembled to contest Prussian and German-national claims to the formerly Polish lands of the Grand Duchy of Posen by turning the records, decrees, and private papers of Prussian officials against the administration that produced them. Its documentary centrepiece is the "Black Register," a suppressed table of confiscated Polish crown and church estates given away as grace-and-favour gifts in the province of South Prussia in the 1790s, compiled by the Prussian whistleblower Hans von Held in a Berlin prison cell.

Added: July 08, 2026

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