Today I completed the Frank Oliver Collection. The school sketches were interesting to file. I placed them in order of the lesson workbooks that Oliver went through during his time at the Landon School.
After 2 hours, I had completed adding all works into the finding guide. Both the archivist and my supervisor were out for the day. The manager called my supervisor, the assistant manager, and he gave her a few ideas of what I could work on next. We searched for some boxes of items from a group in Dallas, but I found 12 large boxes to be overwhelming with no prior guidance. I ended up working the rest of the day with the photo person.
I started a new project on the Dallas Times Herald. I was given a box of photo negatives that needed processing. I was shown how to place them in sleeves and how to write the accession number. The accession number for these photos is very long, PA83-41/yyyy-mm-dd-photographer initials1/#. The 1 is for the sleeve of negatives o a particular subject and the # is the negative number. I worked with both 35mm and 120s. I even came across a few slides.
This project is a lot like putting a puzzle together. I ended the day with an envelope of negatives about the Anadarko Indians. I had to put three different rolls of film together in the right order before placing in negative archival sleeves.
Day Fourteen (July 2)
I spent the entire day working on the box of negatives I had started the previous day. I even picked up where I had left off the previous day with the Anadarko Indians. I had a second envelope of 120 negatives to order. I worked diligently through the envelope. I discovered that the second photographer that I came across in my processing of this collection was a lot more organized than the first photographer. He put more notes and information on the envelope so that it made processing easier and no extra research into the subject was needed.
I left early today to finish packing for a long low tech weekend out at the lake for the holiday.
Happy 4th of July!
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