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…
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…
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…
All right, I’ll ‘fess up. Our whole Eye of the Beholder exhibit thing? Was Arlene being lazy. In early September 2008, when I asked if we should do something for Archives Month in October, Mariecris suggested an exhibit. The problem was, and is, that exhibits are very time consuming and…
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…
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…
I tend to be a pretty big believer in serendipity. As this week is starting to bear out. Back to the beginning. Two years ago (about) Tim Miller, an educator out in Bethel, was in town for a workshop we sponsored with the Library of Congress on using primary sources…
Guest blogger: Mariecris Ed. note: We’ve been working on Arliss’s papers for quite some time. Arliss originally gave them to us in 1997, I’d worked on them from about 2003-2005 sporadically, and after Mariecris started, I assigned them to her to polish off. We’re so pleased to finally be able…
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…
Without going on at length about archival appraisal and what that means and how we do it, sometimes it just comes down to throwing stuff out. Take this past Saturday, for example. About once a month we have a Saturday workday here in A&SC. It gives us the chance to…
