Exciting News

By Caitlin Eckard

Well I just learned today that my internship will continue through the end of December. Exciting news for me! Hopefully, there will be a full time job for me in January if the funding is there. I have begun my final paper, which is a proposal on how to store the photo collection I am scanning. This project has a lot of interesting issues I must think about before my final paper. The photos are in stage one degradation, as I have mentioned before, so the most important issue is to keep these photos and negatives in their current state, so there is not more damage to the collection. I haven’t had much experience with these types of artifacts, so I have been trying to study up on the best practices for photo storage. I am struggling with how to store everything, because I know some archives/ museums store prints and negatives separately. I don’t think that will work here, simply because of the space available to ATHS. I know temperature control will be the most important aspect of the photo collection after it has been properly stored. I believe that if I do a great job on this proposal, it will be put to use at ATHS, which is some experience I think will benefit me greatly in my career.

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