Summary

I am very glad that I chose to do an Internship before I graduated, especially this particular one through the Neville Public Museum. Everyone there was very friendly and you can tell by working with them they they love what they do. It was nice to get out of the classroom for a little bit and engage in some more intense historical research and take the information I reseach and actually do something with it instead of just writing another paper.

As far as my Internship Essay I wrote about Quiren Groessl, it was very rewarding. When I think of what historical research should be, I think of what I did to write the bio on Quiren Groessl. I contacted his grandchildren, as well as people who knew him many years ago. I actually felt liking I was communicating with this man the entire time I researched him, and I think its that feeling which makes most of us want to study history.

It was rewarding to actually put some of the resarch skills I have learned over the last four years top work and even learn some new methods. I was lucky that I was immersed into WWI history as soon as I started because with my time in the Marines, I already had a limited history of that period and my knowledge of ballistics was helpful when it came to artifacts identification. I am seriously considering remaining a volunteer there simply because I enjoyed it so much.

Day 76-Last Day

Today I was only in the Museum or about an hour. I brought Trevor up to date as to what I was doing and what still needs to be done. I printed off the WWI spreadshet for him and Louise so they know what information is missing ARGUS. I said my goodbyes and went home to prepare my portfolio and final paper to turn in as part of my Internship.

Day 75

Today I spent most of my time photographing the WWI artifacts in the back room in storage. I went back and forth between there and the compute were I edited them on Photoshop and put them into ARGUS. Towards the end of the day, I put back most of Larry's photo equipment since it is near the end of my Internship.

Day 74

Today I went back and forth between the backroom and the computer in storage while taking photos of the artifacts. The majority of the time was spent formatting them using Photoshop and entering them into ARGUS.

Day 73

Today I took the little time I had in the afternoon and I took more photos of the WWI artifacts in the back. Ive got about half of them done and I should be able to finish them up tomorrow and hopefully have them imported before my internship is over.

Day 72

Today I spent most of my time removing the photos I took yesterday from the memory card and importing them onto the W: drive. I then formatted them to spec and assigned them to the appropriate file on ARGUS.

Day 71

Today I began taking pictures of the WWI artifacts so I can add them into ARGUS. Larry helped me by setting up a small lighting studio in the back which will give me better quality photos. Everything is moving right along and I should be able to finish this part up tomorrow.

Day 70

Today I spent the entire morning helping John light the Trilobite exhibit. Once I returned from class, I spent the time I had finishing up the information for the WWI spreadsheet, which is as done as it can be right now. There were no records in ARGUS for many of them. Hopefully on Monday I can start taking pictures of the artifacts and putting them into the system.

Day 69

Soon after I arrived today I helped John move some stuff in the Trilobite exhibit he is working on. I spent the rest of the day on teh WWI spreadsheet. There was little info available on ARGUS for the reminaing artifacts, so I cross-referenced the artifact info with the card file and actually found more fo what I was looking for.