Time to update again...it's been a few weeks now since I've written anything. The days keep flying by that I forget to sit still for a minute and type away at this. However today is a day that warrants pausing and reflecting on all that is...me. It's my birthday, time to rejoice and celebrate my existence! Ain't it great!? 32 years and still going strong.
Since I last updated I've been busy with school, it's taking up all my time lately. No more Warcraft, no more Tennis 24/7, and dude you can put down those Star Trek novels, no time. I can't say that the workload for my classes has been that difficult or involving, it's just so sporadic and not uniform that I'm a bit frazzled with it all so far. Each class has podcasts to listen to, webcasts to watch, slideshows, testx, and readings. I keep worrying that I'm not doing all the assignments I should be doing. Perhaps I should be doing one now?
Another big hunk of my time is this Internship at the One Archive. This week will be my fifth Saturday in a row there, I'm putting in six hours each time. This internship is an Archives Internship, so in theory I'm doing this to get experience in some aspects of Archives and or archiving. Therefore I was given the task of processing a collection about this individual, William Miller, who was a merchant marine and model in New York during the 1940's. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned him a few posts back, however I'm learning more and more about him every day working on the collection. The collection itself consists of about 37 archival boxes filled with personal documents, correspondence, photos, negatives, films, and artworks. Since he was a model and apparently, supposedly, "the most attractive man ever"..during that time...there's tons of photos of him...in various states of dress. I'll admit it, he was very handsome, but let's not get crazy here people. Lots of the photos are either of him in foreign countries while traveling or gallivanting on the beaches of Fire Island, NY.
It's definitely an eye-opening collection, however that loses it's appeal once I realized I had to figure out some way to organize AND describe the collection. At this point I've done the inventory of the items and have loosely grouped the materials into different series, now I have to start processing everything. Last Saturday I begun with the smaller photos, just from one box I had about 200 photos. I barely started processing the next larger size...also from that same box, about another 200 photos as well!
Organizing the photos is a bit tricky, I can't really go by the picture content too much, they're so varied and different that I have to look for clues of printing on the backs of them. For the most part I'm able to determine what goes with what, group them, and then arrange them in photo sleeves and binders...but man is it a long process! I'm having a good time though, getting to learn more about the archive and chatting with the other people working/volunteering/researching there is great. More updates soon...and pictures...so...many...pictures.
Oh and the room I'm working in is there exhibit space, currently they have a fun show about the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence up. Definitely a great environment to work in!
Since I last updated I've been busy with school, it's taking up all my time lately. No more Warcraft, no more Tennis 24/7, and dude you can put down those Star Trek novels, no time. I can't say that the workload for my classes has been that difficult or involving, it's just so sporadic and not uniform that I'm a bit frazzled with it all so far. Each class has podcasts to listen to, webcasts to watch, slideshows, testx, and readings. I keep worrying that I'm not doing all the assignments I should be doing. Perhaps I should be doing one now?
Another big hunk of my time is this Internship at the One Archive. This week will be my fifth Saturday in a row there, I'm putting in six hours each time. This internship is an Archives Internship, so in theory I'm doing this to get experience in some aspects of Archives and or archiving. Therefore I was given the task of processing a collection about this individual, William Miller, who was a merchant marine and model in New York during the 1940's. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned him a few posts back, however I'm learning more and more about him every day working on the collection. The collection itself consists of about 37 archival boxes filled with personal documents, correspondence, photos, negatives, films, and artworks. Since he was a model and apparently, supposedly, "the most attractive man ever"..during that time...there's tons of photos of him...in various states of dress. I'll admit it, he was very handsome, but let's not get crazy here people. Lots of the photos are either of him in foreign countries while traveling or gallivanting on the beaches of Fire Island, NY.
It's definitely an eye-opening collection, however that loses it's appeal once I realized I had to figure out some way to organize AND describe the collection. At this point I've done the inventory of the items and have loosely grouped the materials into different series, now I have to start processing everything. Last Saturday I begun with the smaller photos, just from one box I had about 200 photos. I barely started processing the next larger size...also from that same box, about another 200 photos as well!
Organizing the photos is a bit tricky, I can't really go by the picture content too much, they're so varied and different that I have to look for clues of printing on the backs of them. For the most part I'm able to determine what goes with what, group them, and then arrange them in photo sleeves and binders...but man is it a long process! I'm having a good time though, getting to learn more about the archive and chatting with the other people working/volunteering/researching there is great. More updates soon...and pictures...so...many...pictures.
Oh and the room I'm working in is there exhibit space, currently they have a fun show about the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence up. Definitely a great environment to work in!
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