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Happy Archives Month!  

Preserving old records involves knowing and understanding old records storage systems.  Here is a Box File, filled with correspondence and ephemera from 1912.  Box files were very popular at the turn of the Twentieth Century, and as you can see, a series of box files lined up nicely on a shelf, looking like well-tamed books.  We appreciate the look, and we can certainly get behind a good filing system, but we don’t appreciate the wooden substrate or the fasteners used on the records inside!  Happy Archives Month! 

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Archives Technician Kim sure misses her processing cart, which she hasn’t seen since March. Kim was working on a review of 1977 civil case files from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Los Angeles). 

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Happy Archives Month!

We hold fast to our fasteners, actually, we remove them when we can. Processing older records puts archivists in contact with some really unique ways people used to “hold it together.” 

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Archives Technician Aaron Cleans His Telework Desk and Virtual Desktop 

Since I have been working from home since the end of March, I decided to take some time to clean my computer files and do some organization. I cleaned up my work email and created some new email labels for records management. I also cleaned out my download file and deleted some files which I did not need anymore. 

As I was cleaning up my computer files, I figured since I was sitting here for six months at a dining table doing the work for the National Archives, it got a bit messy. As you can see, things started to get out of hand with papers and my notes of significant Los Angeles District Court cases. 

Now that I cleaned out the pile of papers my telework desk is now spic and span. I am now ready for doing the work of the National Archives from home in a well-organized manner. I am truly blessed to do the work from home of the National Archives and Records Administration without touching documents.

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Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of an archivist is like? Well hop on board with Astrid and see #ArchivesOnTheJob October may be #AmericanArchivesMonth but at the Ship History Center, our archivist works throughout the year surveying and processing collections, fulfilling research requests that may take her on a hunt through the photo collections, or working in our maritime reference library! Want to learn more about what treasures await you in the SSHSA Collections? https://www.sshsa.org/collections.html (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2OTn0HBSP/?igshid=13luwqzsvgoem