Each summer the Archives offers paid internships to provide students with an opportunity to learn archival and historical methods in a professional setting. High school, undergraduate, and graduate students attending Maryland institutions or Maryland residents attending out-of-state schools are eligible to apply. In addition, students may participate in an abbreviated program for academic or community service credit. This summer, the Archives hosted twenty students who worked on thirteen diverse projects throughout the agency. The students' work ranged from preserving collections both traditionally and electronically to geographical, demographical, and biographical research. We are extremely proud of their significant contributions, and we wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors. We are also grateful to the organizations who gave matching funds to help support this summer's program including: Baltimore City Court Foundation, George Washington University, Maryland Commission for Women, Morgan State University, St. John's College, S. J. Martenet and Company, and the U.S. Department of Education.
The following projects were undertaken:
Archives of Maryland Online Electronic Archives Project
Anna Pritt, Home School
Ms. Pritt was the Maryland Colonial Society Essay Contest Winner this
year. She worked from home editing the OCR text for the 1994-95 Maryland
Manual posted in Volume 186 of the Archives of Maryland Online.
Artistic Properties Commission
Sarah Waller, George Washington
University
Ms. Waller helped to draft a Collections Management Policy for the
Maryland Commission on Artistic Property. The policy is designed
to provide the staff with governing policies to ensure the protection of
objects in their care including the scope of the collections, what objects
will be accessioned, how they will be deaccessioned, and what objects will
be borrowed or loaned.
Conservation
Camille Manganello, Brandeis
University
Ms. Manganello helped to repair and conserve library books in our collection
including making Mylar book covers and wraparounds for books that had been
disbound. She also assisted in the assessment of our microfilm collections,
and specifically evaluating specimens presenting with symptoms in accordance
with what is known as “vinegar syndrome.”
IT Programming
Kyle McLean,
Mary
Washington College
Mr. McLean programmed an updated version of the Archives' publications
management system to enhance its. Also, he updated the mail logging
system to automatically print receipts that were previously written by
hand.
African American Attorneys Biographical Research Project
Louis Malick, College
of William and Mary
Mr. Malick worked with the Research staff in studying the career and
life of prominent African American attorney J. Steward Davis. He
assisted in compiling a list of all extent court cases and documents from
Davis' career.
Library/Government Publications
Faith Erline,
Washington
College
Ms. Erline assisted the Librarian in accessioning, cataloging, and
storing publications including back issues of the library's collection
of serials, publications from organizations such as local genealogical
or historical societies, or national organizations like the Library of
Congress or the National Archives.
S. J. Martenet Company Electronic Archives Project
in Baltimore
Richard Brown,
Home School
Joshua Hood, Home
School
Brian Oswinkle,
Perry Hall High School
Ronald Owen, Jr.,
Home School
The students flattened, foldered, and boxed the original documents
in acid free storage materials from Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
5087 (S.J. Martenet and Company, Inc. Collection). Then, they scanned
the surveyor's plats, maps, and field notes of Baltimore City and surrounding
areas, preparing them for presentation online in http://martenet.org.
Once the materials were imaged, they original files were delivered to the
Archives for proper storage.
Special Collections St. John's Archives Project
Emily Tordo,
St. John's College
Ms. Tordo processed, cataloged, and created on online inventory for
the Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 5698 (St. Johns College
Archive Collection).
State House Research Project
Cindy Thompson, University
of Maryland, College Park
Ms. Thompson reviewed the http://mdstatehouse.net chronology and extracted
the research related to the structure of the Old House of Delegates Chamber
and its many restorations. She also annotated the report of the committee
which oversaw the restoration of the Old Senate Chamber during the 1930s.
The task entailed adding many letters, bills, newspaper articles, ads,
and photos to the chronology.
Underground Railroad Research Project
Ryan Cox, Salisbury
University
Genevieve Goerling, St.
Mary's Collegee of Maryland
Keith
Swaney, University of Maryland, College Park
The students reviewed the 1830 and 1840 United States Federal Census
Records for Baltimore County looking for all households including slaves
or free blacks, and those dwellings where blacks were listed as the heads
of household. Also, the students searched for and scanned runaway
slave and domestic traffic advertisements from the Maryland Republican
and the Baltimore County Advocate. Data from the census and
newspapers, including scanned images of the advertisements, were entered
in a database for presentation on http://mdslavery.net. They also
spent a portion of time on case studies making connections between online
biographies, slave narratives, interactive maps, runaway advertisements,
and land records on http://mdlandrec.net. Each student also wrote
and gave a presentation to be included on the website.
Women's Hall of Fame Research Project
Amy Huggins,University
of Maryland, College Park
Ms. Huggins researched and wrote ten biographies of members of the
Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, including Bea Gaddy, Hiltgunt Margret Zassenhaus,
Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston, and Dr. Liebe Sokol Diamond. These biographies
have been added to the online exhibit maintained by the Archives for the
Maryland Commission for Women.
Women in Law Research Project
Amber Robinson, Hood College
Allison Smith, McDaniel College
Erin Troxell, St. Mary's
College of Maryland
In partnership with Judge Battaglia of the Court of Appeals and Judge
Eyler of the Court of Special Appeals, these students used the Court of
Appeals Test Books to compile a list of women admitted to the Maryland
Bar between the years of 1902 and 1975. The interns' list totaled
seven hundred and forty-nine people by the conclusion of the summer, and
they also started biographical files for many of the women. The ultimate
goal of this project is a publication on the history of Maryland Women
in Law. This summer was a pilot project that could continue in 2007
with funding. Ms. Andrea Fucheck is creating an editorial oversight
group for the project and helping to raise money for a Finding Justice:
Maryland Women in the Law publication. Dr. Papenfuse has been
asked to serve on an LLC for that purpose and any monies raised would go
to the Friends of the Archives as matching funds for the 2007 summers internship
program.