Assessment | Drawer 03

Date: 27 June 2019 Drawer: 03Number of Photographic Cards: 315Number of Loose Photographs: 94Decades Featured: 1920s-1960sSignificant Characteristics: 7 Annotated Envelopes; Free-standing PhotographsUnique Finds: Kodachrome; Histology PhotographNoteworthy Inscription: McManus (as patient, not photographer)Time Spent: Too long Girl, Interrupted Today was a frustrating day, where everything that could go wrong seemed to go wrong. I chose Drawer …

Assessment | Drawer 01

Touching Base It feels blasphemous, somehow unholy, to undo the string wrapped so tightly and for so long around small clumps of cards. Bound loosely together, the cards seem settled – and the idea that I am entering, intervening, and breaking these parcels up troubles me. I am dressed in the safety gear given to …