Made a List by Cut-and-Paste the List to Organize Archival Documents Damaged by Disaster

Return of Archival Documents of the Alumni Association of Miyagi Agricultural High School by Yamagata Cultural Heritage Disaster Prevention Network

Abstract

Archival documents of the Alumni Association of Miyagi Agricultural High School affected by the East Japan Great Earthquake were rescued by the hands of volunteers, carried to Yamagata, dried and cleaned. The author led the work to return the documents after the procedure in October 2013 as one of the volunteers. A method for multiple workers to visually and intuitively understand information in the documents was contrived and implemented at this time. It is reported in this paper, as it is determined that this method is effective to organize museum materials at the time of emergency.