This was a short week, since I had to miss internship for a work-related event on Tuesday, and Wednesday we got 10 inches of snow. To make up for the hours I missed, I spent some time at home transcribing letters from the Ochs collection that I think will be relevant to the online exhibit.
Once I was able to get back to internship, I visited the soldiers’ lives exhibit at the museum to get inspiration.
This exhibit focuses on three soldiers and a nurse and includes a brief bio of each, as well as documents and artifacts that illustrate their experiences during the war.
I’d like to do something similar with my project, although I hope to arrange it in somewhat chronological order rather than by person. It helps that each soldier’s period of activity in his respective collection already falls into order, more or less. For example: Ambuehl (training camps), Cahill (trenches and early wounding), Ochs (work with the Stars and Stripes and post-war military career). I need to decide whether to include a fourth section on Ambuehl’s death or include that in the first section.
