For my graduate internship, I knew I wanted hands-on experience in an archive. I know that archival work is crucial work in the field of historical research. Having not spent much time in archives, I knew that working in one would be excellent experience. I found two unrelated collections of slides and several artifacts that…
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Archival Internship at Shaker Historical Society
Throughout my master’s degree journey at Cleveland State University, I discovered a deep love for archival work. After earning undergraduate degrees in History and Social Studies, I was uncertain about my path until professors encouraged me to pursue Museum Studies. Nearing the end of my program, one of my final requirements was a summer internship,…
Corporate Heritage with the Western Reserve Historical Society
Throughout the Spring 2025 semester (and the latter half of the Fall 2024 semester as well), I had the privilege of aiding in developing further research and exhibition of the story of a company headquartered in Cleveland through my work as a Corporate Heritage Project Manager at the Western Reserve Historical Society. In October 2024,…
Odds and Ends at the Cuyahoga County Archives
My internship for Spring 2025 was at the Cuyahoga County Archives. I had previous experience at the Archives during my Summer 2024 internship with the Italian American Museum of Cleveland, when I completed many hours of property research there. In doing a few hours of research at the County Archives weekly, I found the atmosphere…
Working at the Archives
I’ve been working at the Cuyahoga County Archives over the summer. It’s an important place, as all archives are. Whether it’s a private organization or part of a government, many groups go through hundreds of thousands of documents every single day. Many of them tend to be too important to throw away, but not important…
2018 Internship at The Cuyahoga County Archives
A few weeks before the end of my second semester as a graduate student at Cleveland State University, I went on my first visit to the Cuyahoga Country Archives which is located in downtown Cleveland on East 40th Street and Perkins Avenue. I traveled to the archives in order to introduce myself to the Head…
A Semester at the WRHS Archives
I began my internship at Western Reserve Historical Society’s research library in August 2017. I was a bit familiar with the building from previous research done there. In the beginning, I spent a bit of time in the first few weeks going through their required paperwork and doing various things to get set up for…
