3/26/12 (4)

I realized I never searched through the photo files for the Phoebe Hearst item request, so I decided to begin with that.  I still had no luck, so Dr. Larkin gave me another item to search.  She received an email requesting an item that was found in the Hearst database.  The information included the name of the item and the album that it was in, so this was an easy job.  I found the sales record and description and copied them.
Next, I again tried matching up the sales records with the photo files and found several matches.  I scanned and edited them in Photoshop and will need to finish on Thursday.

3/22/12 (6)

Today I "photoshopped" the images which I scanned on Monday and uploaded them onto the library server.  Since the computer which was connected to the book scanner was being used, I searched through the sales records for any more which matched with the photo files and scanned the sales records on the flatbed scanner.  While I was waiting for the book scanner to become available to scan the photos, Dr. Larkin asked me to find certain items owned by Phoebe Hearst.  This was a request from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, California.  Since there was nothing in the Hearst online database, I spent the next few hours flipping through the sales records once again!  It will be so much easier once these are recorded digitally!
P.S.  I never found the items.
Since the book scanner was available at this time, I finished scanning the photos and edited them in Photoshop and uploaded them onto the server so my work wouldn't be lost.

3/19/12 (6)

Today I was asked to locate a Roman marble sarcophagus fragment representing a figure of Eros holding a garland.  The current owner acquired the item in 1959 in California directly from the Hearst Corporation warehouses.  The email had some further description of the item and I tried locating it by searching in the sales records and online database, but was unable to find anything.

German 15th Century Saints

While I was searching through the sales records, I noticed a section called "photo file."  Since we have photo file records for 1929-1930, I decided to match up the sales records from these years with their photos.  I was able to find quite a few matches and had to scan the front and back of each photo along with their corresponding sales records.  This should keep me busy for while.

3/15/12 (6)

NYPD Glee Club and Band from the Pictorial Review

Today, I finished up the website...there's still some minor changes to make, but it looks pretty good.   Now I was able to add some more entries to my blog before the next job :)

From the Hearst Archive

 We received another email asking for an item of Hearst's: a vase.  The information given was very descriptive (including the album and page number where the item was located) and since the inquiry was previously searched on Heart's archive, no further digging was needed.  I simply found the album, scanned the pages and image, and resized them in Photoshop.

3/12/12 (6)

From the Pictorial Review

Another intern helped me match the sales records, which made the job so much easier!  By searching the database by item #, I located the corresponding album and made a list for her to follow.  She spent most of the day placing the sales records in the albums, while I began working on the site again.

3/8/12 (6)

Old style horse drawn cart and paper truck

I began working on the website again.  Since I don't know php coding very well, it's been fun learning something new!  This image is from the Pictorial Review.  I spent a few hours on the site, but then took a break and began matching "Hearst Unidentified" sales records to the album collections.  There were at least 100 matching items and they had to be placed in mylar and placed in their corresponding album.

3/5/12 (6)

More information needed to be located for the upcoming show.  I needed to find an Egyptian coffin and spent most of the day looking for it among the photo files and sales records, but had no luck.  I also needed to find some African art purchased by Hearst, but couldn't find anything.

3/1/12 (6)

I needed to find any records and images of an aztec calendar plate and aztec tea service for the upcoming show.  Searching through the photo files and sales records, I was only able to find a few similar items, which were of no use.

I began working on the website, which can be found here.  It's for an exhibit from last spring called:  Exhibition: A Pictorial Review - Greater New York's Silver Jubilee - May 26 - June 23, 1923.
I created 6 new pages on the site and added images and text to the pages, which can be seen here.

2/27/12 (6)

A local university needed some images of items purchased by Hearst, but I had no luck finding them.  Searching through the boxes of sales records is very time consuming...I only wish it could be cataloged, which would make searching so much easier!

Later I started on a web project - placing the exhibit from last year on the LIU-Hearst website.  The exhibit was based on "Greater New York's Silver Jubilee May 26-June 23, 1923."
I searched through the images and text that was used for the collection and placed them in order which would later be used for the website.

2/23/12 (6)

A 15th century Spanish Decorated Wooden Ceiling

I needed to add some images to my blog, so I used some of the ceiling images I scanned and edited them in photoshop, changing the image size to 72 pixels and decreasing the size to about 3 inches (for copyright purposes!)