Archives Intern, Phillips Library, Rowley, MA
Posted May 21, 2018
Archives Internship at Phillips Library
Repository: Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum
The Phillips Library is the documentation and research division of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The collection presents a detailed account of the global nature of commercial outreach by Essex County residents in the 18th and 19th centuries during the “golden age” of shipping. Logbooks, merchant account books, shipbuilder’s records, customhouse records, and documentation of travels and exploration to the Pacific can all be found within its print and manuscript collections. At one time, Salem was the largest trading port on the east coast. Logbooks in the collection document the relationship between Salem and Japan as early as 1799. China trade is also represented through manuscripts found in the collection and by the Frederick Townsend Ward print collection, one of the world’s largest collections of Western-language materials on Imperial China.
In addition, the history of Essex County is strongly represented by manuscripts from its prominent citizens such as Nathaniel Bowditch, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lucy Larcom, Samuel McIntire, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George Peabody, and John Greenleaf Whittier, as well as the Crowninshield, Derby, Hemenway, and Phillips families of Salem.
Location: 306 Newburyport Turnpike, Rowley, MA 01969
Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 to 4:30
Supervisor: Tamara Gaydos, Manuscript Librarian
Supervisor email: [email protected]
Supervisor phone: 978-542-1510
Parking: Free on site
Intern must pass a background check before beginning the internship. This is an unpaid internship.
For a beginning archives student
Project Description: Under the supervision of the Manuscript Librarian, intern will arrange, describe, and create a finding aid for unprocessed collections of personal papers or organizational records in our collection. Intern will choose appropriate subject headings for the catalog records.
For an advanced archives student
Project Description: Under the supervision of the Manuscript Librarian, intern will arrange, describe, and create a finding aid for a larger or more complex collection of personal papers or organizational records in our collection. In addition, he/she could digitize a smaller collection and upload it into CONTENTdm.