Hi all;

A discussion about this on the list would be very valuable to those 
of us who don't have a really good grasp on how to go about what 
Jennifer asks about. Off-list messages/solutions are fine, but the 
question can't be unique to Jennifer. :-)

Cheers - Ian
Ian Brumell
The Cloyne & District Historical Society

At 22:15 -0400 2008/07/15, Jennifer M. wrote:
>Hi,
>Help! I'm a librarian with only a couple of archives courses under my belt
>(12 yrs ago!). I'm hoping someone on this list might help me with a question
>I have re: arrangement and provenance.
>
>My great-uncle was a Canadian pilot serving with the RAF during WWII. I am
>the lucky recipient of his 'blue trunk' of war memorabilia and would like to
>organize the information in proper archival format. The trunk includes:
>--diaries, letters, photos, vital records
>--ephemera such as ticket stubs, receipts, program guides
>--large maps of routings to specified bombing areas
>--paper and coin currency, incl Allied Military currency
>--a large bag of all the letters he received from his then-girlfriend (now
>wife)
>--badges, brooches, medals and parts of his uniform
>
>I want to organize the collection in a manner that would be useful to future
>researchers, however, there is the issue of 'provenance'. For example, some
>of the ticket stubs and receipts are located within the pages of the
>diaries; my historian background says to put them all together in a file of
>'ephemera'. What to do?
>
>I look at the collection and become overwhelmed! Can anyone give me some
>insight as to how to arrange this collection? You may contact me on or
>off-list.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Jennifer Marcoux, B.A., M.L.I.S.
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>St. Catharines, ON


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