Isabella: Thursday Final Stretch

At this point in the research, it's becoming more and more difficult to figure out where to put my energies. I am proud to say that our master spreadsheet is complete and I have fully compiled all of the Oldman correspondences, biography file, and uploaded the important PDFs from his boxes. We are really near complete and I have to stop myself from diving into new projects, like cracking open the Hall Correspondences files or getting too invested in researching more minor donors. Today, I spent my time finishing up the ethnographic photo boxes from the African Section. I was less successful today, but I did find interesting photographs of old exhibitions that showcased models of Somali men in glass cases. I included the pictures in the deliverable file and perhaps it will be something to look further into in the future. The photographs did not include labels so I didn't have much information to go off of.

After I finished those boxes, I spent the rest of my time beefing up the donor files. I plugged information in places where it was lacking, included as much information as I could for important donors such as Oldman, and ensured that all of the files linked back to the Master Spreadsheet. I feel that we have a successful deliverable to hand off to Dr. Zuberi tomorrow and I am looking forward to seeing who uses our research next and where they will go with it. 

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