cgu-gitiz, Author at Out of the Box

August 10, 2018September 14, 2021 by cgu-gitiz

A quaint week

This
week I have been filling in the Frankish Letters Book 1 excel file that I have
been working on with tons of useful information such as Archival
Collection/Call number, hardware/software used…ect. This organization will make
my job easier in the next few weeks as I move on to upload the files.

The game
is afoot.

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August 3, 2018September 14, 2021 by cgu-gitiz

Best advice can come from unexpected places

Today I finished renaming and converting the
pdf files in Frankish Book I. Next week I will venture on to a new task.

Take away from my thus far adventure: Mr.
Frankish gives great advice and I’d grab a coffee with him any day. As I go
through his letters, I can see that he was an intelligent man and so much of
what he writes applies today. In a
letter to his sister, he writes, “trust in Providence and go on doing what one
believes to be right…..” Truer words have never been
spoken.

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July 27, 2018September 14, 2021 by cgu-gitiz

It takes time to do things well

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I
sometimes find myself overwhelmed with the sheer amount of work that I need to
complete per week. Work, study, and….can pose a challenge and after all there
are only 24 hours per day and I can only -realistically- use 16-17 hours of it.
Multitasking seemingly offers a solution but I rather focus on one task at a
time. Patience is a virtue and it takes experience to refine and master it. I
believe Mr. Frankish hit the nail on the head in a letter to a Mr. Burnet,
Esq., “As to improvements on your ten acres, they are not so far advanced as
you appear to think, it takes time to do things well.”

I
salute you Mr. Frankish!

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July 20, 2018September 14, 2021 by cgu-gitiz

Knowing what goods are (and where to find them)

In a letter to Work Bros. & Co. in Chicago,
Illinois, Mr. Frankish discusses the details of a clothing order for four hundred
& fifty to five hundred dollars worth of clothing. He writes,

“And as our seasons are
not so marked as East of the mountains you will understand we will want light and
medium weight goods & in good goods colors that will stand California sun.
We are on Santa Fe & Southern Pacific R. R. 22 miles west of San Bernardino
& 38 miles East of Los Angeles——- country. And as we are between & so near two good
towns tis necessary for us to keep some good goods & at prices that will hold
our people at home…… Our community is composed of a good class of people and while
not wealthy know what goods are and want what they purchase stylish for the
money. We have in our Town two Small stocks of clothing. Kept in general stores.”

Online shipping is keeping me at home, however, I still order
from far and beyond. I wonder what he would say about that.

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July 13, 2018September 14, 2021 by cgu-gitiz

It’s All About The Details

This week I continued to work on
renaming the files to ont numbers and converting the PDFs in Frankish
Letters Book 1 into PDF/As. Verifying the file transcripts and scans requires
attention to detail, which I hope to refine even further through my tenure as a
CLIR CCEPS Fellow.

Looking forward to
the future!

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July 6, 2018September 14, 2021 by cgu-gitiz

silver lining

This morning I woke up at 5:30AM and I know that is early for most people.
Seemingly Mr. Frankish was an early bird as well and used to make his way to
his office at 5:30AM. One morning he found the office safe open with the contents scattered all over the office floor. However, he was able to see
the silver lining in the attempted burglary. He wrote in a letter,

“….They had drilled through the
outer door of the safe right opposite the lock and knocked it out of place
which left the bolts free, then drilled the inner door and put in the charge of
dynamite with a fuse, closed the outer doors to deaden the explosion and blew
the—— lock all to fragments. Fortunately there was not a cent in the vault so
their labor was for nothing and they had evidently been pretty decent fellows
for their kind…”

I will take his advice and see the silver
lining every day.

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June 29, 2018September 14, 2021 by cgu-gitiz

New Adventures

Hi everyone,

My name is Giti and this week was my second full week as a CLIR CCEPS Fellow.

I am very excited to join the team. For the past two weeks, I have been renaming and converting the PDFs in Frankish Letters Book 1 into PDF/As. It has been very interesting working with this book and tracking Mr. Frankish’s business transactions and correspondences. I am very excited to see what’s next!

More next week,

Giti