Accessioning of Subject Files Completed

Thanks to the hard work of Stuart Strothman and Mary Jane MacGuire, the massive collection of “subject files” has been recorded and electronically listed.  This work took well over two hundred hours during the course of the last two years.  There are three subject file drawers in the cabinet; Lindley Speers and Fern Tavalin recorded drawer 1 five years ago, and the listings there are limited to the folder names.  However, the remaining two drawers have archival entries for every single file!  This makes electronic searching of names, places, organizations or events in the (greater than two thousand) spreadsheet entries a snap.  Also, it has allowed us to formally accession the subject files, assigning specific archival numbers to every single document (or folder, in drawer I).  Along the way, we organized the folders, gave them a new set of hanging files and manila folders, and put valuable, original documents into archival sleeves for protection.  This is an exciting new resource for researchers of Putney history. Now we truly know what we have, and nothing is ‘lost’.

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