Artists' Materials Collection Continued (With Pictures!)

Time is definitely flying by at the Amon Carter, and a lot of progress has been made on cataloging the Artists' Materials Collection! As of now, I have reached accession number 266 (so about 266 sets have been cataloged) and the overall records completed are about 1,600. At this point, I am just over halfway through the collection and will hopefully be able to complete it by time the internship ends (August 25th). In addition, I am creating a cataloging manual that will serve as a guide on how to catalog any future entries that are added to the collection. The manual is pretty much complete, I just need to add a few more things and discuss it with the archivists to see what needs to be corrected. I started the second big cart of objects and took a "before and after" of the box full of objects not cataloged and the previous box that has been completed and ready to be stored:

Here are some of the interesting objects that I have cataloged recently (including my little paper numbers to show which object is which):

This is a Devoe & Raynolds photo oil set that was used to paint black and white photos. There have been a couple sets that were designed for this purpose, this is the only one I've cataloged so far that is in a wooden box. The set included 16 colors, medium, turpentine, varnish, and some other tools.

This is a Victorian watercolor set that includes 12 colors, a marble palette, metal water dish, two sticks of Sumi ink (many watercolor kits from this era included Sumi ink), and a paint brush.

Additionally, I have been working on a blog posting that will be included on the Amon Carter's blog and will soon be helping create label text for one of the exhibit cases that is in the Library at the Amon Carter. These last few weeks are going to be very busy, but I am very excited to continue and hopefully finish the catalog soon!