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Project Photo Archivist
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$52,000 a year
Full-time
- The Project Photo Archivist position is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to subsidize a project titled A Tale of Two Communities in Two Centuries, which supports the processing, digitization, and conservation of two of the Trustees’ collections that have the potential to reveal significant stories of underrepresented culturesThe Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN) collection (1977-2014) and the Colonel John Ashley Papers (1755-1818).
- The Project Photo Archivist will be responsible for quality checking the 25,000 recently digitized slides and photographs from the BNAN collection, the processing and rehousing of the physical copies of these visual materials, as well as any restructuring that is needed to bring the digital organization in line with the physical organization.
- The Project Photo Archivist will focus on describing the digitized slides and photographs in the ARC’s collection management system (CMS), creating records that are consistent with ARC cataloging standards.
- The Project Archivist will also be responsible for processing, digitizing, and cataloging photographs from collections related to the Col. John Ashley papers.
- The Project Photo Archivist will be part of the NEH project team, reporting to the Head of Historic Collections.
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