 volunteer because I was already at the meeting so staying extra day was fairly easy and kind of made it my travel arrangements work a little better. I was excited about the project because I've started out in photography conservation before I transitioned the objects and so I was kind of excited to look at some photographs again and it's really exciting sort of meeting the other people involved in the project. I really like the agency meeting just because you can meet other conservators and find out about their work and the Angels project is a good sort of casual opportunity to talk to people. I'm really excited I came mostly to try and network with people and find opportunities for internships it's a really great opportunity. I'm here at the Angels project I found out about this through the website it was listed as an option it sounded really fun and again it's just like a great it's a great way to meet people and talk to them and find out their stories. I've been thinking of doing AIC Angels for probably 15 years. This is the first opportunity I had to do it. I didn't know what they were going to be working on it's not exactly my area but glad to help out. The reason I'm here is because I found that being involved in ACPN events has really helped me network and meet people outside of the book and paper group. I feel a lot of times it's a very big group and we're kind of very insular but this year I've met tons of people and spent tons of time with especially the objects conservators. I came to Rochester to specialize in photograph conservation and this is my second Angels project. I think it's a great thing to do to like to give a service to the community we are having the meetings and all that. I learned so much just by working with the people from different cities. I got involved with the Angels projects to help with my expertise here but sort of at the end of the day ended up taking on the primary role of the beginning organization with some of the already fine conservators we have here so I sort of set up a workflow based on what Nancy Reinhold had done locally but she wasn't able to be here today so I think I worked together starting last night with two other conservators that I knew to set up the photography then the inventory spreadsheet that Michael the curator had had begun so that we could take down condition information and enter that in there and and then the basic workflow was to get some condition information based on conservators assessments and then put them into a new storage format after they've been photographed so now there's a document there's minimal condition notes really indicating primarily whether something is stable or unstable and then some quick notations of the kinds of issues so that there's a record for them photographing all the images are half of the images that we're coming through the Angels project in the last box of 340 basically 10 types and 60 daguerreotypes 62 amber types currently working here on the AIC Angels project and I am surveying amber types for its condition and noting whether or not it's stable or unstable and if it's unstable just listing some comments as to why to help the staff here the society better understand their collection and future preservation needs so this is an amber type it's in a thermoplastic frame and not actually case so I'm noting that the condition and it's very stable it's not falling out of its case and it doesn't have a significant corrosion problems either on the glass or the preserver or the math and the case does have some breaks or the frame does have some breaks at the corners but that's just a little area of loss and not actually structurally problematic in frame so it is still considered to be stable it's an inert plastic trying to balance not touching the way to affect any further it's already been tarnished and oxidized from exposure to the atmosphere for an extended period I don't want to get any other fingerprints or oils on it and it's trying to score the crease on the polyester here to the bottom part of the tray or to pull the tray and then place the stiffer mylar over the front and back of the package and seal the edges so that'll give us physical protection from any further scratches or abrasions and protect it from the atmosphere to keep it from tarnishing further it needs to be more safely housed it could be handled until such time as it can be treated by a conservator to reduce some of the tarnish or provide a little more stable housing for the longer term. It's a conservator at Illinois State University and we're working on rehousing these daguerreotypes we've gotten some archival boxes and lined them with some foam so to protect the objects and we're creating kind of separation so that when they're shelled they'll stay separated and protected. Housing up that these are tip-tips right and we are the sort of final temporary handling so of the crew so what we're doing is inserting them into mylar envelopes making sure that their temporary number goes with them so it matches up with all the data and the photography that's happened and imaging that's happened taking each step and they're being housed and appropriate archival materials in groups of 10 so the curator can find them more easily eventually it'll be much heavier tip-tips. There are three hundred and thirty three hundred and thirty four we're waiting for the last two to come in actually and so they're all organized 100 200 well this is up to 99 this is 100 up to 199 200 to 299 and then we begin with the 300 so and there's room for more to go in this is so satisfying look at them nicely everything tips in here just perfect preserve of text walkie walkie county history through our outreach programs through our exhibitions that educate that public not only native walking but tourists that come to walkie for dimensions like AIC or other dimensions to really get them integrated into a wide walkie history where a walkie has a very rich immigrant history has a rich industrial history so it's our mission and it's our duty so to convey why the past is important why how it relates to the present is important