It’s been a while since I have made a post. I’ve been busy helping my supervisor with various tasks involved in moving the Collections storage for the Historical Society Museum of Western VA. The two pictures involved in this post are of some film for photos that I found while sorting photos. The task I had been given was to help empty several file cabinets full of photos that had all been sorted categorically. It is more helpful for the photos to be sorted by their accession numbers, so the move has opened the opportunity to properly sort many of our items.
The picture to the left shows 3 archival boxes full of photos and multiple stacks of photos with no accession number, meaning that we will have to go through at a later date and find each photo’s individual number. The photos at the top are of photographic film in mylar plastic envelopes that have been labeled with archival ink on top of acryloid. Each photograph or piece of film needs to be put in its own mylar, placed in a labeled archival folder, and put into the box that corresponds with the year of the accession record.