Welcome to The Unclaimed Archive

We’re a curated digital collection of forgotten moments, anonymous faces, and untold stories from the past. Each photograph in this archive, spanning from as early as the 1940s and as late as the 1980s, was once part of someone’s life, capturing a fleeting moment in time.

The images - rescued from old slides and lost albums - are unclaimed, their subjects and locations unknown, yet they echo with the humanity of everyday people from decades long gone. Through this project, we preserve these glimpses of the past, allowing them to be seen, appreciated and remembered once more.

Explore the archive and let these strangers’ stories live on, even if their names are lost to history.

Photographs have been carefully selected from the personal archives of Amanda Lewis.