Alright, so I have to do a journal for this college internship I'm doing. I figure I might as well post stuff here, and then print out the entries later on.

Day 1- January 18th

I started my internship at the Indiana County Historical society today. It's a small museum, much smaller than when I did my internships at Hagley and the DMNH. It's a pretty friendly, laid-back place. The staff has been pretty helpful. I'm working on the Watson Collection, which has to do with World War I. I'm going back over the boxes, looking at what they have in there, and assigning a number to each item within the box. This is not intended to be a full-blown finding aid, but will help whoever wants to fully process the collection. I worked on Box 11 and Box 12. It's mainly a lot of books about the military and the like. I found one book that talked about the sons and daughters of Indiana, PA who served in the war. It was pretty cool.

I wrapped tissue paper around some of the books that were rotting pretty hard, to prevent the dirt from getting on the other books.

Day 2- January 19th

I went through box 13 of the collection. It held a lot of maps. One interesting thing that I found was an atlas that showed all the theaters of war during the World War. It was printed by the Johnstown Ledger. The cover had all the kings of the different empires that had gotten involved with the war. The inside included all of these facts and figures about each country in regards to things such as trooop strength and the amount of arms each country had, which was pretty cool. One map in there was in really good shape, for something that had to be about 90 years old. It's amazing how well-preserved some things can be.