by Felicity Corkill, Associate Conservator, and Kevin Schlottmann, Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History All physical objects change over time. Whether accelerated through exposure to light, changes in temperature and humidity, poor handling, or just natural decay, things break down. At the Center for Jewish History’s Collection Management and Conservation Wing, we attempt to address some of this inexorable decay through good storage environment…
Out of the Archives: “File Problems” in Tunis (1983)by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History This letter from the Tunis office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC, or “the Joint”) is in response to a records management survey questionnaire. It describes the “file problems” encountered by the office staff there: A swift kick, a few choice words in Arabic,…
Telegram. Nahum Goldmann to Leo Baeck (misspelled in address line). AR 5890, Council of Jews from Germany Collection, Box 5, Folder 11, October 1953. Leo Baeck Institute. Out of the Archives: Council of Jews from Germany Recordsby Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Here in the Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Processing Laboratory at the Center, we occasionally work with…