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Internship: Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation (NMAH, Smithsonian: Summer 1999) 

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The homepage for the Lemelson Center is <http://www.si.edu/lemelson/>


Russell Johnson


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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:40:45 -0500
From: ALISON OSWALD <oswald@NMAH.SI.EDU>
Subject: Internship Opportunity
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Lemelson Center Archival Internship, Summer 1999


The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and 
Innovation at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian 
Institution, offers full time, ten week, archival internship 
opportunities for graduate students each summer.  The internship 
stipend is $3,000 plus a travel allowance.  The internship will:

Enable new professionals to understand, identify, and manage the 
historical records of American invention and innovation.
	
Expose interns to the Museum's rich historical collections in the 
history of technology and twentieth century material culture.

Provide hands-on experience with archival collections that document 
invention and innovation.

Create finding aids to collections documenting invention and innovation.

Engage interns in discussion of archival issues and practices and 
provide a wide range of professional experiences within the Museum.

Internships are located in the Museum's Archives Center, a manuscripts 
and special collections repository with more than 10,000 feet of 
holdings in a wide range of subject areas and a full time staff of 
fourteen.  At the time of application, interns must be enrolled in a 
graduate degree program and have at least six graduate credits in 
archival administration and at least six graduate credits in American 
History or another area that relates to the history of invention and 
innovation in American society. 	

Applicants should request an application from Allison Wickens in the 
Office of Internships & Fellowships. Requests for information about the 
internship should be directed to Alison Oswald in the Archives Center. 
All materials must be postmarked by March 2, 1999 for consideration.  
Offers will be made by April 1, 1999.  Internships begin on or after 
June 1, 1999.

Requests for applications:                                      	
Allison Wickens, Acting Coordinator             	
National Museum of American  History    	
Smithsonian Institution                                                 	
Office of Internships & Fellowships                                                     	
Room A1040/MRC 605                      	
Washington, DC 20560                    	
phone: 202-357-1606
fax: 202-786-2851

Requests for information:                                               	
Alison L. Oswald, Archivist                             	
National Museum of American History     	
Smithsonian Institution                                 	
Archives Center                                                 	
Room C340/MRC 601                                       	
Washington, DC 20560                    	
phone: 202-357-3780                             	
fax: 202-786-2453                               	
e-mail: OSWALD@NMAH.SI.EDU              	

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