Job Opening Title: Project Archivist, Isaac Hicks Papers
Institution/Organization Name: New-York Historical Society
Job Location (City, State, Province, Country): New York, NY
Application Deadline: Until filled (around mid-March 2018)
Link to job posting: http://www.nyhistory.org/project-archivist-isaac-hicks-papers-pt
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Job Description (if URL to posting not available). Please include instructions for how to apply.: The Isaac Hicks papers document the mercantile activities of this New York City Quaker between 1791-1808, and, to a lesser extent, his retirement from 1809-1820. At more than thirty-five linear feet, Hicks’s papers include an estimated 10,000 letters received, letterbooks, cargo manifests and other shipping records, financing arrangements such as debt obligations, ledgers, journals, legal documents such as contracts and protests, insurance policies, and other manuscript records primarily concerning his dry goods trade. N-YHS has received a grant to fully process and describe this important collection.
The New-York Historical Society Library is seeking a Project Archivist to process the Isaac Hicks papers. The project will place emphasis on preparing a finding aid with rich description, including correspondents, commercial firms, and the ships and shipping concerns documented in the collection. The Project Archivist will also be responsible, in consultation with N-YHS’s conservator, for taking basic conservation steps, such as opening and securing tri-folded documents and rehousing as needed.
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