Putting the Petroglyph Back Together

During the summer of 2013, I worked as a curatorial intern at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum. While at the museum, one of my projects was to create a mount for a broken petroglyph. The petroglyph came from a BLM site, where it had fallen off the rock-face after being accidentally bumped into by a visitor. The rock that composed the pieces of the petroglyph is fragile sandstone, which had been treated by the BLM. Below are some pictures from when I and the other intern, Tessa Moeing, pieced the petroglyph back together and mounted it into a case for display.

 

Accessioning Archival Collections

During 2009 I worked as a student and intern at Joyner Library, Department of Special Collections. Under the mentor library's ship of Dr. Jonathan permanent collections. Linked below are two finished finding aides that I helped create while at the library.

Click here to see the finding aid for the Ashby D. Elmore Papers

This finding aide was made as part of my spring course in "Archival Techniques and Management," while at East Carolina University. During the semester, my classmates and I, all learned about archival practices and procedures. Our final project at the end of the semester was to fully process a collection into the library's permanent collection.  We also, created an inventory and finding aide for the collection.

Click here to see the finding aid for the Cumberland Lodge No. 5, Knights of Pythia Papers 

While an intern at the library I spent the majority of my time accessioning incoming collections. This was the largest collection I worked over the summer. During the accession process, I created a preliminary inventory, noted documents that needed conservation, and calculated the size of the collection.