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derbyshiredro.bsky.social
This is how we'd like the inside of all our archive boxes to look: everything neatly packaged and tied with cotton tape 🤩

#BoxesAndBows #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Photograph of a standard brown archive box with the lid off. Inside are several 'parcels', small boxes made from blue-grey archival card and tied with unbleached cotton tape. Each has a brown label attached to the tape, with a reference number written in pencil. The reference number is also written on the card, in white pencil.
December 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social
🎬 A bow for #BoxesandBows! 🎀 Clara Bow wrapped in a starry fan’s scrapbook, c 1940 for@arascot.bsky.social's #ArchiveAdventCalendar @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social
@librarydmu.bsky.social #filmhistory #Christmas2025 #Advent
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
frannabel2010.bsky.social
With the right #! #boxesandbows
frannabel2010.bsky.social Francesca Hillier @frannabel2010.bsky.social · Dec 3
For #archiveadventcalendar #boxesandbowes here is a letter from Daniel Solander, the famous botanist, after whom the Solander box was named - he worked at the #britishmuseum until his death in 1782. And for the bow, the Museum was adorned with a lovely bow for its 250 anniversary in 2003. #archives
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
dunblanemuseum.bsky.social
#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 3 is #BoxesAndBows. On 12 June 2010 Dunblane Museum Patron Dr Tony Pollard cut the bow to officially open the completely refurbished museum, which had seen all exhibits unboxed from storage & beautifully re-displayed with engaging text, audio and video interpretation…/👇
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
oxhistcentre.bsky.social
Brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of our favourite things #BoxesAndBows

It’s time for #ArchiveAdventCalendar and we have been practising our Christmas gift wrapping with naughty red tape and nice acid-free tape @arascot.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
pastandotherplaces.bsky.social
This tree covered in boxes and bows was positioned at the rear of the Dome (George Street) and could be viewed from Rose Street in Edinburgh in November 2010.
📷my own also at flic.kr/p/8X7mZy
#BoxesandBows #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Christmas tree positioned outdoors in front of a stone building. It is decorated with shiny parcels with red ribbons and bows. It has snowed and everything has a light layer of white - just enough to be decorative.
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
norfolkro.bsky.social
Is this the first recorded #ChristmasEveBox ?#ArchiveAdvent #Advent #Christmas2025 @arascot #BoxesandBows
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
lbwfarchives.bsky.social
Today we return to Halex Ltd, based in Hale End until 1971. These 1960s product publicity photos show a box containing the Noddy toilet set for children, and the Lotus dressing table gift set adorned with a bow. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #BoxesAndBows @arascot.bsky.social
Halex product publicity photo for Noddy toilet set, 1960s. This comprises a toothbrush, nail brush, soap box and comb, in a gift box on the left, and displayed loose on the right. Halex product publicity photo for the Lotus dressing table gift set, 1960s, comprising a tray, hairbrush, comb and small clothes brush.
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
leightonlibrary.bsky.social
#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 3 is #BoxesAndBows. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library has ribbons tied in bows around some books which have fragile bindings, and some restored books in protective boxes to protect the bindings…/👇
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
rcpsgheritage.bsky.social
Day 3 of #ArchiveAdventCalendar is all about #BoxesAndBows.

Just look at all these lovely boxes and an impressive piece of archival wrapping topped with a beautiful bow.
Shelves in archive store with boxes and books Archive wrapping tied up with a bow
December 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
arascot.bsky.social
Today's theme is something that Christmas and most archives have in common. #BoxesandBows #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
designarchives.bsky.social
Salon du Cadeau
25 Nov - 4 Dec
Les Halles Courtrai
Designer: Boudewijn Delaere, VVG

Icograda / theICoD Archive
ICO/3/3/41
@arascot.bsky.social
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #boxesandbows
black poster with multicoloured 3d shapes designed and decorated as presents.
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Can we combine all of today's archive hashtags in one post? Yes we (tenuously) can!

We bring you 'Help', Railway Dog of England & absolute Bestest Boy, in 1883, collecting for orphans of railway workers, amongst boxes and a bow-clad child

#EYAPets #BoxesAndBows #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Engraving from 'The Railway Review', 26 October 1883. It shows Help, a black and white collie type of dog, getting out of the guard's carriage of a train with a heavily bearded, uniformed guard following him. A woman and child are looking enquiringly at Help, who has a metal plate with his name on around his neck. A basket and box can be seen on the railway platform. The child has a vast bow around the waist of her dress.
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
berksarchives.bsky.social
Godric's been practising his bow tying skills ready for Christmas. What do you think of his efforts? #BoxesAndBows #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Crocheted stag with Santa hat sitting on archival boxes with bows made out of archival tape.
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
friendsofgri.bsky.social
Boxes of drugs
Boxes of honey
Boxes dumped in the space we made a museum
Bow cut by David Geyer, Rebecca Strong's great grandson at our official opening, 31st May 2022.

#boxesandbows

#archiveadventcalendar
#day3
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
barnsleymuseums.bsky.social
#BoxesAndBows The 1928 Christmas fund

Hampers were distributed to almost 2000 miners' and their families in Barnsley who were struggling as a result of strike action.

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Have you opened the #BarnsleyChristmas calendar yet?
bit.ly/BMAdventCalendar2025
A worn, brown box with a label reading "From the Daily Mail Christmas Fund 1928. Packed by William Whiteley, Ltd." sits on a carpeted floor.
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
dundeecityarchives.bsky.social
If you enjoy wrapping your Christmas Presents with a bow and putting them in boxes, the you may want to think about becoming an Archivist. Especially if you are any good at untying knots when those bows have gone a bit wrong! #BoxesAndBows #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social
All dressed in bows, these peg dolls from 'Lady Tabitha and Us' are playing drop the handkerchief. Find out more about these mischievous peg dolls on our blog blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/201... #boxesandbows #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Christmas @arascot.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM