Photos in the Archives: Cyanotypes

Guest blogger: Megan “What are these blue thingies?” That’s a question I’ve heard countless times from interns and volunteers processing photo collections. “Are they supposed to look that way?” Yep, they sure are. Those “blue thingies” are one of my favorite early photographic processes: cyanotypes. And they are indeed a…
Alice E. Brown papers part 4: An Alice Brown map index of my journey
Guest blogger: Mariecris. The processing of the Alice E. Brown papers is close to an end. I will soon reach the destination of a fully processed collection. But to add a little extra excitement to my journey, I’ve talked with Arlene and I am going to create a record of…
Alice E. Brown papers part 3: Detour signs along the way

Guest blogger: Mariecris. I have been steadily working through the Alice Brown papers and discovered that we share a common characteristic; we doodle when taking notes. Amidst Alice Brown’s handwritten notes are doodles she did during meetings. These doodles range from simple boxes she drew around notes she wrote to…
Eye of the Beholder: for a third glorious year
Alice E. Brown papers part 2: Multiple pathways, same destination
Guest blogger: Mariecris I have been steadily working on Alice’s papers and am really enjoying it! But I needed to stop and share some of the interesting things I’m seeing, learning, and doing. First of all, Alice did a wonderful job of keeping her records in a particular order. It…
Alice E. Brown papers part 1: The beginning of the processing journey
Guest blogger: Mariecris Serendipity has been the catch phrase in the archives these recent months. All sorts of serendipitous events have occurred within this past year, one of which is the accession of the Alice E. Brown Papers. Rebecca Lyon came into the Archives to do some research on her…
A swarm of circumstances
Arliss Sturgulewski
Mining the collections
Guest blogger: Megan We’ve recently embarked on two projects here at Archives and Special Collections that I’m pretty excited about. The first is to tackle our backlog. First of all, let me say that I have never worked at a place that has a smaller backlog! This is largely due…