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National Museum of American History (NMAH, Smithsonian)
Three SI students spent their ASB week at the Archive Center of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The students ventured into their various tasks with great energy and interest. The Archives Center is full of unique and interesting collections that are often poorly preserved or neglected altogether for lack of human resources to properly organize and treat them. As such the students were quickly put to work organizing, classifying, identifying and digitizing a number of the collections.
Kate Zoellner worked on organizing the photographs and slides from the Southern Agricultural Oral History Project. She checked photographs and slides against negative numbers and brief descriptions of the photos/slides, then organized them into file folders and archival boxes. During the last two days of the ASB week, Kate worked on adding the photographic print information to the current draft of the Finding Aid. Shahana Alam Shahana Alam spent the ASB week with a collection of original lunchbox art from the Aladdin Lunchbox Company. She spent much of her time building sink mats to house the art. She also worked on a finding aid and cataloged the materials.
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third-time ASB host
Jennifer Angel worked for the week with the Scurlock Collection. She catalogued pictures with her advisor, the director of photographic archives in the museum. She also matched photographs to a view finder of objects and photographs in the collection.
