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This site offers, in a newsletter format, updates and glimpses across the Local Archive collection.

If you subscribe today, you'll get full access to the website as well as an email newsletter that offers a different kind of dispatch from rural America, across space and time.

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What is Local Archive?

Since 2016, Local Archive has collected thousands of rural newspaper photographs alongside representations of these same regions in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

Across those differences in place, culture, and editorial context, the Archive documents the swift, and often contradictory, forms of change in rural communities – and how these dynamics are misunderstood in the urban-normative national conversation.

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This collection will continue through 2040, a year in which experts have predicted both the final decline of the newspaper and the decisive shift in demographic and electoral majorities in the United States.

Local Archive is freely offered as a foundation for research, education, and creative projects.

This work is curated by Matthew Fluharty. He is a member of M12 Studio, Executive Director of Art of the Rural, and an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow.