Rehouse Remaining 2D Objects
To provide better organization of the archival materials, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.
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As a result of this project 357 Institutional files, 380 original photographs, 395 miscellaneous objects were rehoused by placing the objects in protective sleeves, entered into Past Perfect 5 (PP5) and placed in flip top boxes or into the new flat file.
Registration Files: 200 paper donation forms, donor letters, gift receipts, acknowledgments, misc. documents re provenance were handled, analyzed, annotated, compiled and organized by year in newly created office Registration Files. (About 100 of these were discovered among the institutional files' materials worked with during the project.
1155 'Registration Ledger' line item entries, representing individual donated items from 1988-1998, were analyzed and used as source material to create donor and accession records in PP5. Standard Accession 2-part numbers were assigned to accession entries and noted in the Registration Ledger next to the A or P number. For 675 entries (see below), a 3-part object # was assigned and noted in the Registration Ledger next to the item and it's A or P number.
424 PP5 Accession records were created in Accession Module; all fields populated including 'Brief Description of Accession' using information from these sources: Registration Ledger; Existing reorganized paper registration documents; PP5; Inventory 3-ring binders, balcony photographs and information found on individual objects.
675 PP5 catalog records were searched for and found, analyzed, corrected, updated and linked to the correct Accession record in the Accession Module.
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