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Summer Internship: Smithsonian Institution Archives (Washington, DC)

• Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:25:18 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: Summer Internship: Smithsonian Institution Archives (Washington, DC)
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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:25:26 -0500
From: Fynnette Eaton  [EATONF@OSIA.SI.EDU]
Subject: Summer Internship at Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sender: Archives & Archivists  [ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]


Please contact Sarah Stauderman directly, if interested.  

The Smithsonian Institution Archives seeks a summer intern to work on 
the preservation strategy and remedial conservation treatment of the 
Robert Ridgway Papers.  The Ridgway collection consists of fragile, 
detailed watercolors and drawings of birds, and the original color 
plates Ridgway used to develop a scientific description of color as 
described in his important Color Standards and Nomenclature 
(Washington, 1912).

The primary objective of this internship is to design and begin to 
fabricate housing materials for the illustrations, consistent with 
other rehousing activities at the archives.  A secondary objective is 
to treat damaged items, and identify others for additional conservation 
treatment.  The intern will learn about preservation priority and 
single-item condition surveys, holdings maintenance, and archives 
conservation.  The intern will work on site at the Arts & Industries 
Building in Washington D.C., and offsite at the fully equipped paper 
laboratory at the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and 
Education.  

Term of appointment is for 8 weeks with a flexible starting and end 
date in summer, 2002.  This position is supported through an SI Women's 
Committee grant.

Stipend: $2,000.

For further information, please contact Sarah Stauderman at the 
following address.  Please send letter and resume with references to

Sarah Stauderman
Preservation Manager, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
Arts & Industries Building, Room 2135, MRC 414
Washington, DC  20013-7012

Telephone: 202-357-1421 x30
E-mail: staudermans@si.edu

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