What I did this week - 2/27
Today I completely finished the processing. The first task was to finish putting tags on the radio parts. The tags had room enough to put on the box number, item number, and description of the item. Here is what they looked like:
Here's me labeling the tag for the telegraph key (left) and the finished label along with the key (right).
Once the tag was finished, I tied it on to the item, and then packed the item into a box. I wrapped many of the items in a newspaper-like paper to keep them from banging against each other and being hurt.
I added each of the items to my inventory. They took up 4 boxes, and some items were too big to fit in a box.
On the left is the Dynacone, with its labeling tag. The Dynacone is not one of the oversized objects, but it came close.
On the right is the Dynacone inside its box. The wrapped object in the upper right corner is the base that I am wrapping in the right-hand picture in the last set.
Once I had accomplished this task, I was almost completely done with all of the processing. I just had one more thing to do: label the boxes. When I worked on the SPU archives over the summer, we handwrote all the labels on the boxes (more than 800 of them!). But I did not have to do that this time. Instead, I printed out some labels from the computer, and put them on the boxes. These labels are special, foil-backed ones that will not come off easily, making them perfect for use in an archives.
The picture on the right is a close-up of the top label in the picture on the left. Each of the small boxes had a label like this. It contains 4 pieces of information: the Archives Name, the Collection Name, the Box Number and a Description of the Contents.
The picture on the left is a close-up of the labels in the picture on the right. Like the labels for the negative boxes, the labels on the regular boxes contain 4 pieces of information: the Archives Name, the Collection Name, the Box Number and a Description of the Contents. For Box 9 (the close-up label), the contents are radio parts. In fact, Box 9 contains the Dynacone and the base, seen above.
Now I am done with the processing! All I need to do is write a major paper in one week's time. Piece of cake, right?
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