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https://uwm.edu/c21/wp-content/uploads/sites/359/2025/11/SD-Archives-II.jpeg800800This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Ceceilia Loeschmann. Photographs, videos, documents, and other ephemera often exist as objects of memory, valuable to the families and individuals that create, collect, store, and steward them. Anna Woodham explores …