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Summer Internship at Smithsonian Institution Archives



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. Box37012
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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