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  • About
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    • LHIP Team
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    • Annual Reports
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  • Internships
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    • Published Interns
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Learning about the procedures of the NPS Museum Collections handbook, and beginning the Annual Inventory of the collections here at CHAM!!!

Last week was mostly preparation for the Annual Inventory of the collections here at CHAM, this week however we had an opportunity to engage with applied archival and historical work. I worked closely with my supervisor and Cultural Resource Program Manager, Mark Calamia, Rodney Sauter...

24 July, 2019 / 0 Comments
Information Management Training and Beginning the Research for the Scope Of Collections Statement for Chamizal National Memorial!!!

This week was intense and fun!  We completed the necessary IMT training in order to have access to the NPS computer system in time to start the Annual Inventory of the museum collections the following week. After our visit from Khallel from WACC, we had...

24 July, 2019 / 0 Comments
At CHAM beginning the necessary work and learning the inner-workings of the Cultural Resource department at an NPS site and collaborating with WACC!

In preparation for the visit from the regional assistant archivist from the Western Archaeological and Conservation Center (WACC) we spent some time organizing some protective archival materials and supplies we had at our off-site warehouse. This week was jam packed with work, and the opportunity...

14 July, 2019 / 0 Comments
Beginning at the park and creating stewardship of the collection of our natural and cultural resources here at the Chamizal National Memorial Park!

So this past week we were able to get on site and meet some of the staff at CHAM. I continued the inventory of non-accessioned item of the collection and began reading the last SOCS as a means to move forward with its update. I...

14 July, 2019 / 0 Comments
Continuing Community Partnerships and beginning the inventory for my summer project at CHAM.

This second week of my L.H.I.P. internship at CHAM was really fun, we continued our oral history project at a community partner institution. In addition we started discussing and implementing the direction of my project for the summer which would consist of finishing the inventory...

30 June, 2019 / 0 Comments
Getting Started and Looking Forward to the Rest of the Summer as an L.H.I.P. Intern with the NPS!!!

My name is Alejandro Garcia. I live in El Paso, Texas and I will be working at the Chamizal National Memorial here on the US-Mexico border. I am currently completing my Master's degree in history at UTEP, where I focus on public history and borderlands...

20 June, 2019 / 0 Comments

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