I took a pretty epic spill yesterday on some ice after leaving the museum and was a little worried that I would be useless today. I was. But luckily, someone useless was exactly what was needed. The clothing collection is currently housed where the city archives are moving and they need to get outta there.
Andrea, Kaila, Tim and Jon all worked at getting a start on the moving process. I was assigned task of artifact number registrar. I basically sat and wrote down each number as things were put onto a rack. I felt pretty lame all day.
Most of what we moved were old military and other public service uniforms. Very cool. I love buttons and it is very interesting to see how they are used on these types of apparel through the years, along with badges and patches. I found an old military button in Baltimore [shout out] last summer and it was a nice little side project looking into what dates it was in use and what uniforms it was used on.
[This is my button from Balitmore. I know, totally amazing.]
Anyway, I promise not to fall again and to be more helpful.
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