Brianna Connaghan
Hagley Museum & Library
Collections Management Intern - Registrar's Department
During the summer of 2015, I interned at Hagley Museum & Library in the registrar’s department to help accession nearly 5,000 Du Pont Vehicle Color Cards. I worked primarily on my own carefully recording, analyzing the color, and entering these cards’ data into Microsoft’s Excel. Part of my job was to create a proposal for rehousing the cards and then remove and organize the cards that could be utilized for exhibition, which can be viewed upon request. The cards are currently being presented in Hagley’s “Driving Desire: Automobile Advertising and the American Dream” exhibit. In addition its connection to the Du Pont cards, I was tasked with the project of rehousing blueprints from Hercules Powder Co.
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Conservation Intern - Library Conservation Department
During the spring of 2016, I interned at Hagley Museum & Library in the Library Conservation department to gain experience doing conservation work with paper and photographic materials. During my time there I learned to clean photographs with erasure crumbs, clean papers with cleaning sponges, mend paper objects with wheat starch paste, remove unwanted labels with a poultice, and clean and rehouse 35 mm slides.
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