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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 444 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARCHIVE (
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Lat. archivum, a transliteration of Gr. apxeiov, an official
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building)
, a
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term (generally used in the plural " archives "), properly denoting the
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building in which are kept the records, charters and other papers belonging to any state, community or
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family, but now generally applied to the documents themselves (see RECORD) .

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