(Photo #2005.23.1077 Donated by Gerald Robinson)
A day in the life of a museum collection manager processing museum artifacts can yield many things. Education is an excellent tool to teach us how to process museum materials correctly, from preservation, public access, technological advances to long-term storage needs. What we need beyond that is to be able to fully describe what is happening in an image. This photo is from 1969 and shows 31st district Democrats (left to right) Curly Witherbee, Gordon Herr, Norm Ackley ??(spelling) Andy Hesa. If your job was to catalog this, what would you say? How would researchers access the information in this picture, (what would they want to know, how is this a helpful document for future generations...) and what keyword search terms could you use to describe it? And, is there anything missing here that is glaringly obvious for a 2010 individual that would not be noticed in 1969? Would you choose to note that in the description?
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