A Herculean effort in the archives by my two summer students, Daria and Maci

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Daria and Maci with 10 boxes on lower shelves of the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force Organizational Records.

 
Daria and Maci with 2 collections, 22 boxes of Barbara Madison Indigenous Tribal Histories and Genealogies Papers, and the 12 box addition to Jane Keon Jelenek's Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force Organizational Records.



Maci and Daria Edward C. Lorenz's Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force Organizational Records, 7 cubic feet of which is the latest addition

My two summer students, Daria and Maci, have completed a Herculean effort this summer, processing and describing a lot of records in 4 collections. Here is the finished physical result. What does not show here is that they've also gone through many boxes of materials we either withdrew (duplicates, blanks, miscellaneous, publications we already had or which are available online) or returned to donors, as well as reviewed a lot of digital material, making much of it for extra review or withdrawal. I am very proud of them and all they have accomplished. They are fantastic processors and wonderful young women, too. My goal is to complete the related catalog records and online finding aids by mid-August and, if possible, to retain them as processing students into the coming academic year.

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