Digital Archives Intern, Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, (Cambridge, MA)
Posted February 2, 2026
- Title: NCPE Digital Archives Intern
- Location: Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, Cambridge, MA
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Position Dates: May 26, 2026 to December 18, 2026 (30 weeks)
- Stipend: $18.50 per hour and housing reimbursement up to $875 per month
About the Site:
Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site is a historic house and cultural institution whose occupants shaped our nation. It was a site of colonial enslavement and community activism, George Washington’s first long-term headquarters of the American Revolution, and the place where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his canon of 19th-century American literature.
The archival and photograph collections of Longfellow House- Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site (LONG) include over 450 linear feet of personal papers of the extended Longfellow family and records of preservation and management of the historic site. Within the archival collections are over 11,500 photographs and negatives ranging from 1840 to 1970, encompassing a wide range of photographic processes and topics. The museum and archival collections complement each other, giving the collections depth and exceptional research value; together they provide insight into the personal and public lives of the Longfellow family.
Job Description:
The intern’s primary project will be preparing digitized material from the archival collections for upload to the site’s Digital Archive Portal on NP Gallery. This work includes working with the archivist to establish publication priorities, following established procedures to format and embed item-level metadata, formatting full-text transcriptions of manuscript documents where available, and completing missing catalog information where needed.
The intern will also have the opportunity to assist with public research requests relating to the collection and to identify an area of interest for their own small research project to enable the intern to discover some of the connections inherent in the park’s collections. Potential products of a research project include an interpretive web article or contributions to temporary exhibit development.
The intern will work under the supervision of the archivist and work closely as a team with NPS curatorial staff (archivist, museum curator, and museum technician). The intern will have opportunities to connect with staff across divisions, including with interpretive rangers working with the public.
How to Apply:
See the full position description and application instructions at PreserveNet.
Closing date February 26, 2026.