Written by Ariel Polokoff, ICFA Intern (Spring 2015), The George Washington University, Class of 2015 This past Spring semester, I had the privilege of interning in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. This internship offered a two-fold benefit to my undergraduate education—it was both … Continue reading
Written by Deena Gorland, ICFA Intern (Fall 2014) Edited by Rona Razon and Shalimar White Due to previous experiences working at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic, I was relatively well-prepared for the challenges inherent in processing substantial quantities of oversize materials in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) of Dumbarton Oaks. Certainly, … Continue reading
ICFA is currently recruiting interns for the Spring term. Please click on the links below for the full internship descriptions and application instructions. Please note that students must be able to earn course credit for these internships. Exhibition Intern Intern will assist the Byzantine Research Associate with the onsite and online exhibit “The Holy Apostles: Visualizing … Continue reading
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) is pleased to announce the publication of several new finding aids and preliminary inventories. Continue reading
ICFA is currently recruiting interns for the Fall 2014 term: Image Cataloging Intern, Archival Intern for Finding Aid Conversion and Oversize Material Continue reading
Written by Jessica Cebra, ICFA Departmental Assistant Measuring tools are essential to archaeological surveys, excavations, and other kinds of fieldwork. Measurements not only lend themselves to the documentation process, but offer a sense of scale to those who did not see the object or site in person. Amongst the images of scaffolding, trenches, and crumbling … Continue reading
Written by Alison T. Miner. This semester I’m an intern at ICFA, working with the metadata about photographs, in several legacy databases. Along with the Metadata and Cataloging Specialist, Anne-Marie Viola, I’m doing research and planning so that we can move more than 70,000 records from 5 different databases into the new collections management software, … Continue reading
We’re using the last few weeks of summer to clean up projects before the beginning of the Fall term and the arrival of the new set of Fellows. During this relatively quiet period, I’ve finally had a chance to clear out the shelves in my office. Well, some of them – there are other long-standing … Continue reading
Written by: Jessica Cebra, ICFA Intern Photographic negatives present many unique challenges to arranging an archival collection of photographic materials. A photograph is an inherently problematic document type containing multiple layers of meaning by which it can be described. An archivist must keep in mind the person, group, or organization responsible for the creative activity that … Continue reading
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