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The Philadelphia Tribune Archives Associate in PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Tribune Media Group
520 South 16th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Contact: Victor Smith-Human Resources Manager
Phone: 215.893.5758
Email: humanresources@phillytrib.com
Fax: 215.735.3612
Position: Part-Time Archive Associate
Days: Not Determined
Compensation: TBD
The Philadelphia Tribune Media Group, an award winning African-American newspaper is seeking individuals to process historical images. This includes sorting, categorizing, numbering, assigning subject categories and completing a catalog template for historical images housed in The Philadelphia Tribune Archives.
The selected people will be supervised by a professional archivist, will work with images, dating between the 1940s through the 1970s, that depict primarily African Americans in the Philadelphia and surrounding areas. The purpose of this project is to make these images available for research use by sorting, cataloging and preparing them for digitization.
Required: Enrolled as a student in a college or university, or a retired person preferably with some library cataloging skills. Basic computer skills using word and excel spreadsheets.
Preferred: Interest in history, African American history, photojournalism, art, or archives.
