{"id":10796,"date":"2026-05-11T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/?p=10796"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:23:09","slug":"archival-processing-at-the-brooklyn-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2026\/archival-processing-at-the-brooklyn-museum","title":{"rendered":"Archival Processing at the Brooklyn Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1224\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkmcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkmcover.jpg 1224w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkmcover-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkmcover-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkmcover-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkmcover-973x630.jpg 973w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkmcover-508x329.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>A slide deck showcasing my experience as the Pratt Institute Archives Fellow at the Brooklyn Museum. I created a finding aid for the Brooklyn Museum Art School\u00a0 records and processed over 15 Hollinger boxes of materials for access restrictions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11260\" src=\"http:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-logo-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-logo-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-logo-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-logo-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-logo-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-logo-2048x1152.png 2048w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-logo-973x547.png 973w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-logo-508x286.png 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11259\" src=\"http:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-973x649.jpg 973w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/bkm-508x339.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the Brooklyn Museum celebrated its 200 year anniversary during the 2025-2026 academic calendar, I had the honor of processing one of its collections that was featured in the\u00a0<em>&#8220;Breaking the Mold: Brooklynn Museum at 200&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>exhibit. This collection was the Brooklyn Museum Art School (BMAS) records. <span style=\"font-size: inherit\">The BMAS ran from 1941-1985 and it&#8217;s collections features exhibition records, programming records, department administration and faculty files.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">A PDF of the presentation is available <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">here<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">For presentation, use these <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1Y6GoCtSeFGj_AIS_SNSqHqXCKZl2IhDNyDvgaNC0MQ4\/edit?usp=sharing\">slides<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Image Citations:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glaviano, Adrianna, \u201cBrooklyn Museum celebrates 200,\u201d 2025. The Brooklyn Museum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pratt Fellow presentation by Milan Williams about their experience archival processing at Brooklyn Musem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5259,"featured_media":11269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1415],"class_list":["post-10796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1402"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10796"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11276,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions\/11276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}