In the past three weeks I have been busy taking care of various tasks, most of which I forgot to photograph to illustrate this blog. The picture above is of a case in which there are 3 record books that contain financial information and are currently a part of our banking exhibit that opened on the 3rd of February. This exhibit also contains the banks that I was working on in previous weeks.
Last week I was working exclusively in Collections with artifacts. I spent all of Tuesday and Thursday matching information to object, packing, and adding information to a spreadsheet.
Today, I worked on organizing large maps and blueprints that we have on loan in order for them to be returned to their owner(s). They had to be handled very gently and organized in a specific order. It was interesting to skim over maps regarding hospital, residential, and businesses. I have also been given my main project for this internship, which will be to look through our FIC (Found In Collection) items and matching them to items within our records.