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Finishing Up and More Discoveries
I’m getting ready to wrap things up here with the Van Nice project. My year-long internship at ICFA will be ending in a few weeks, and I’m trying to tie up as many loose ends as I can before I leave....
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And…there’s more!
Just when I thought I was close to the finish line….this happened: Yep, these are new Van Nice records, acquired from a colleague and friend of Van Nice’s, George Majeska, who inherited some of Van...
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“Non-textual materials”
Written by: Jessica Cebra, ICFA Intern Photographic negatives present many unique challenges to arranging an archival collection of photographic materials. A photograph is an inherently problematic...
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Who is Charles Felix Marie Texier?
Written by Jessica Cebra, ICFA Departmental Assistant Yeşil Mosque in Bursa, Turkey, in Texier’s “Asie Mineur,” from the Rare Book Collection. Before I begin reorganizing the contents of our cold...
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Thoughts on Traditional Processing and MPLP…
Written by Rona Razon, ICFA Archives Specialist For a long time, I have been meaning to write a post about my thoughts on the proper way to perform archival processing (i.e. research, assessment,...
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Internship Opportunities at Dumbarton Oaks
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) is seeking for two interns: Archival Intern and Metadata Intern. For more information, please see the descriptions below. Note: The student must be...
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Assessment of the Moche Archive at Dumbarton Oaks
Written by Lisa Trever, Tyler Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies PhD in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dumbarton Oaks is the new...
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1938-2013: 75 Years of the Byzantine Object Census at Dumbarton Oaks
Written by Jan Zastrow, ICFA volunteer and Certified Archivist The project to conduct a Census of Byzantine and Early Christian Objects in North American Collections began 75 years ago in late 1938 by...
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An Archive of One’s Own
Guest post written by Raquel Begleiter, Research Associate for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (DOML) Libraries, books, papyrus fragments—these are a few of my favorite things. The value of each...
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The Importance of Being Consistent: Digitizing the William Earl Betsch...
Written by Thomas Busciglio, ICFA Intern (Spring 2015), University of California, Santa Barbara – Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Seeing a professional scanner for the first time is...
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