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.
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
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.
Jul 15
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.
Jul 15
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is an anonymous polemical collection of historical documents published at Leipzig in 1861, assembled to contest Prussian and German-national claims to the formerly Polish lands of the Grand Duchy of Posen by turning the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.
Jul 8