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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.

This project is independently supported and has no commercial interest in the materials shared.

45 articles across 36 creators are currently archived.

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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Materials for the History of Polish Territories under Prussian Administration is an anonymous polemical collection of historical documents published at Leipzig in 1861, assembled to contest Prussian and German-national claims to the formerly Polish lands of the Grand Duchy of Posen by turning the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

The Drachenloch above Vättis in the Tamina Valley

The Drachenloch above Vättis in the Tamina Valley is a 1921 monograph by Swiss naturalist Dr. Emil Bächler documenting the excavation of a prehistoric cave at 2,445 metres above sea level in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, which yielded thousands of cave bear bones and contested evidence for habitation by Palaeolithic man.

Added: April 06, 2026

Drachenloch 1917–23

Drachenloch 1917–23 is a 2008 documentary chronicle by Peter Baumann reconstructing the full excavation record of the Drachenloch cave above Vättis, Switzerland, the highest-altitude Middle Palaeolithic site in Europe.

Added: February 21, 2026

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Helhesten

Helhesten is a Danish art journal published over nine issues from April 1941 to November 1944 which featured the abstract expressionist art of the Danish avantgarde group of the same name.

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Asger Jorn Catalogue raisonné Series

Asger Jorn Catalogue raisonné Series is a five-volume catalogue raisonné series on the Danish painter Asger Jorn by Guy Atkins and Troels Andersen.

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10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art

10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art is the title of Asger Jorn's ambitious but unfinished encyclopedic project to document the visual history of Scandinavian art from prehistory through the Middle Ages, conceived through his Scandinavian Institute for Comparative Vandalism.

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