Flint Archive

Digitised field notes, maps and photographs

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Flint Archive is a small independent collection of digitised survey notebooks, hand-drawn maps and early field photography.

Collections

Survey notebooks, regional maps and glass-plate negatives, catalogued by place and year.

Scanning notes

How we capture, colour-correct and preserve each item.

Reuse

Most images are free for research and education with attribution.

From the journal

A notebook from 1912

Pencil sketches and tide tables from a coastal survey.

Scanning glass plates

Our light table, our mistakes and what finally worked.

Mapping old trails

Matching hand-drawn routes to modern elevation data.