{"id":1618,"date":"2010-04-15T11:21:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:21:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:21:05","slug":"mary-elsie-fox-photograph-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Mary Elsie Fox Photograph Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new finding aid is available for the Mary Elsie Fox Photograph collection.  This collection came to Special Collections from a donor that discovered the photographs inside of a discarded scrapbook.  The photographs remained unprocessed for several years following the donation, but graduate student intern Kate Norman recently processed the collection and created a finding aid that you can view <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.gmu.edu\/finding_aids\/fox.html\">here<\/a>.  Kate is a student in the History 690 Archives Administration class taught by Joel Wurl in the George Mason University Department of History.  Part of the course requirement is that students complete a short practicum at a local repository.  Another student in the class, Maria Forte, completed finding aids for the <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.gmu.edu\/finding_aids\/novaplanning.html\">Northern Virginia Planning collection<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.gmu.edu\/finding_aids\/krasnow.html\">Shelley A. Krasnow papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new finding aid is available for the Mary Elsie Fox Photograph collection. This collection came to Special Collections from a donor that discovered the photographs inside of a discarded scrapbook. The photographs remained unprocessed for several years following the donation, but graduate student intern Kate Norman recently processed the collection and created a finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,162],"tags":[56,59,170],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recently-processed","tag-photographs","tag-planning","tag-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-q6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4973,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=4973","url_meta":{"origin":1618,"position":0},"title":"Mary E. 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