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What is a System?
A system reconstructs a functional historical environment rather than presenting isolated objects. Each grouping demonstrates how domestic, industrial, and social life operated in practice between 1860 and 1960.
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About the Archive
The Taylor Archive is an independent private research collection focused on the reconstruction of lived historical environments. Objects are systematically documented and organized into interpretive systems that analyze material function within social, domestic, and industrial contexts.
The Taylor Archive for Material History is a privately curated study of domestic, industrial, and educational objects that document everyday life across time. Each object is preserved not as decor, but as material evidence.
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