First Day in the Department of Mammalogy Archives
Today was our first day participating in the summer semester internship program. After getting our ID cards, we made our way to the Department of Mammalogy Archive, the home of the Museum’s original...
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Handle with Care
During our time spent in the Mammalogy archive we came across a large bound collections of newspaper clippings and published bulletins. The newspapers dated from the beginning of the twentieth century...
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Different Shapes, Sizes and Forms
Today we created catalog records for some unprocessed or partially processed collections of former members of the Mammalogy Department. The collections, for the most part, are made up of the research...
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Of Dust, Bones and Elephants.
In an effort to bring various aspects of the collections to light we have spent a great deal of time in description mode. This can be a sensitive activity because the materials found in one collection...
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Museum History in Stereo
Today, we came across yet another technology format. We found some stereo slides taken by Hobart Merritt Van Deusen of the 1959 and 1964 Archbold Expeditions. Stereo slides, much like stereographs,...
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Phase I: The Complete Story
Today we completed Phase 1 in the Department of Mammalogy. In total we described 97 collections, but because of the organization of the archive, that number fails to tell the whole story. In reality,...
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Mammalogy Takes the Field
The quest to complete the inventory for the field notebooks continued today in Mammalogy. In last week’s episode, we faced the choice of whether to complete one record for the entire collection or...
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Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow
Today we received a wonderful treat in the North American Mammal Hall. While heading an effort to make the dioramas more environmentally friendly through better lighting, Beth and her team of...
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Wrapping Up in Mammalogy
Today Becca and I ventured up to Mammalogy to continue the brainstorming process about how to assign location numbers to the collections. While Mammalogy’s archive was the site for the Museum’s...
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