Author: Althea Cupo

I’m Althea Cupo, a Museum Studies MA student at Johns Hopkins University, and I’m interning in the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum (WWPL)'s archives from August 29th through early November. My task for the semester is to create finding aids for the papers in "Woodrow Wilson and Segregation Box 1" and curate a digital exhibition based on the information in the box. I’m very excited because I eventually hope to start a museums consulting firm dedicated to equitably presenting controversial history and this is a chance to test out my personal theories.

Week Six

I’m still describing documents, printing them out, and integrating the digital and paper collections. When I first started describing documents, I asked my supervisor if I could name a document something like “racist slander.” He laughed and said that didn’t meet professional standards of objectivity, but that I could “dance around that” as best as I could. I want to be objective, but I’m realizing there is an inevitable level of subjectivity in whatever I do.  Continue reading “Week Six”

Week 5

After a month of pulling the Wilson and Segregation collection to pieces, I’m finally integrating the digital-only collection and paper-only collections by scanning the paper only collection and printing the digital-only collection. The goal is to have all the papers on Wilson and Segregation in a single collection in both digital and paper format. Continue reading “Week 5”

Who’s Lying?

I finished cataloging my box. It took about twelve hours, and while I didn’t get bored of straight data migration, I was excited my next task involved reading scans of Library of Congress documents on the Wilson administration and segregation. I’m still cataloging, but I have to read most of the documents in order give each a brief description, and in some cases, to determine how it relates to the other documents in its group. Continue reading “Who’s Lying?”

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