2020 Internship Blog Post #6

This week at the UCF Special Collections and University Archives, I was able to get through several more binders in the collection. I only have one binder left to look at and rehouse and one that I had mentioned previously that I was going to go back to when I was finished with all of the other binders. However, there has already been information I created previously for the other items in that binder so it will be easy to go back to. Basically, I only have one and a half binders left to complete. There are also several loose papers, that I believe from only briefly looking at them are photocopies of original censuses. As I finish up my survey of the collection, I continue to find that there is a large portion of census data that I will in the coming weeks be checking for duplicates. I am really excited to see what the next step is in processing this collection.
            This week for the most part it was a lot of the same things I have seen in previous weeks, mostly a lot of census data. However a few documents and photos, that are all copies of the originals, reference people that are also referenced in the Carol Mundy: African American Legacy Collection, tying the two collections together. However, this and the topic of African-American history seem to me the only ways in which these two collections donated by Carol Mundy intersect so far. Perhaps, as I create the finding aid further, I will become more enlightened on the topic. It has been quite interesting to me to go through this collection and see many different names mentioned throughout and then find photos of several of those individuals throughout the collection. This week, in the binders I was working on I found another unpublished manuscript by the same author who published the one I mentioned some weeks ago previously. I am also hoping to show my professor Dr. French this manuscript when he comes to see the collection as part of my final at the end of the semester along with many other things, including the photos from this week.
            I also wanted to mention something I forgot to talk about in last week’s blog. Last week there was a binder which I rehoused that was on civil rights, the Klan, and FBI investigations. I wanted to bring this up because one of the documents was an investigation that mentioned the complexion of the individual being investigated, which may be very interesting for me to look at for my MA thesis on crime, punishment, and race in Sanford, Florida. This document in the collection for my internship mentioned a complexion than is mentioned in several of my primary and secondary sources for my MA thesis, a “medium” complexion. It is really interesting what working on an extensive and enjoyable internship project allows you to find.

The University of Central Florida Special Collections and University Archives Website:

https://library.ucf.edu/about/departments/special-collections-university-archives/



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