McCurdy Update

The past couple weeks have seen Lisa and I continuing our processing and item-level inventory of the McCurdy Collection.  We've definitely been making progress, as you can see from the following picture:

Our trash pile is definitely growing!  We've broken down almost 30 boxes, but that's only about a third of the way through the collection.  Here's a picture of our new, pretty boxes:

That picture is from last week, so we've made a little more progress from here.  We ran into an issue this week with some very heavy scratchboards and we came up with a solution (and another type of storage solution to add to the multiple ones we've already used): for any heavy scratchboards, we will use Banker's Boxes (like regular file boxes).  We have bundled them up and tied them with string to keep them separate.  So far, we have those boxes, the telescoping boxes (one set with lighter sketches and another with (light) scratchboards), and then sollanger boxes for the oversized materials (scratchboards and otherwise).  So there is a lot of variety in the storage of the collection, but the final intellectual arrangement will be more fluid.