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.