I’m still organizing, sleeving, enveloping, and otherwise archiving Ethel and Nancy’s documents. I’ve come across more old family documents, some from as early as the time of the Civil War, which is pretty cool.
My somewhat-OCD impulses have gotten the better of me, and I’m rearranging things to try to have a more reasonable physical order, as well as a good archival order. Some of the main categories I’m using are older family/historical documents, Nancy’s artwork, and Nancy’s time in France. I’m also dividing up a few folders that were stuffed past capacity into much thinner folders, so none of the many photos get warped as they sit in the boxes. Once everything is satisfactorily organized, I’ll number all of the folders at the same time.
Below is an old family photo. There are no names or a date on the back, but someone wrote, “Spoiled print but will give you an idea.” I’m not sure if this is referring to a less-than-quality development of the photo (it looks pretty good to me, especially give how old it probably is) or the fact that no one except the young girl in the middle is looking anywhere near the camera. Anyway, I just thought it was a sort of funny and candid picture, especially since it was with a bunch of formal family portraits in which everyone
looks very serious.
Next week I’m (still) going to try to finish up with the doc boxes and get started with entering everything into Archivists’ Toolkit.