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Family archives: memories as a means of knowledge, 27 August 2025 by NairaWM BO (of Wikimedistas de Bolivia):
These encapsulated memories have become the last vestiges of an analog reality that is gradually becoming more diffuse. Physical photographs are now treasures of collective memory, and as such we have identified them in the work we do at Wikimedistas de Bolivia. We began two years ago by contacting the family of Bolivian designer Daisy Wende, and we expanded our scope with the Papeles y bytes libres program, through which we share images from the career of film and television director Marcos Loayza.
We are making slow progress managing new family archives. This work mainly consisted of mapping cultural actors whom we personally invited to donate archives from their personal records. Metaphorically and literally, we knocked on many doors. Thanks to these efforts, we contacted the family of musician and artist Alfredo Dominguez and found a lost image in Wikidata. We contacted the family of singer-songwriter Jesús Durán, to whom we owe some of the most emblematic cuecas in the national songbook, as well as the family of composer Alberto Villalpando, partner of writer and poet Blanca Wiethüchter.
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