In the course of daily life, individuals and organizations create and keep information about their personal and business activities. Archivists identify and preserve these documents of lasting value.

These records and the places they are kept are called “archives.” Archival records take many forms, including correspondence, diaries, financial and legal documents, photographs, and moving image and sound recordings. All state governments as well as many local governments, schools, businesses, libraries, and historical societies, maintain archives.

Jersey Archives:  Since 1993 Jersey Archive has collected over 300,000 archival records and it is the island’s national repository holding archival material from public institutions as well as private businesses and individuals.

Archival images of jersey:

Archival photography is one of the most interesting landscape photographs to look at because you can find out so much history about how the landscape has change and you can look into why it might of change and what impact it has had on the landscape. Jersey is a beautiful island that still has lots of countryside however it has industrialised dramatically over the past 100years and now has many building which from archives we can see used to be just open land. These two images, old and new, give us some insight of how archival imagery can show the changing landscape.