Category: Internships & Jobs

The Boston Furniture Archive, a project of the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, seeks interns for its third annual summer field cataloging project, scheduled for June 1-August 23, 2016. Up to four interns will receive training and work as a team to document furniture at a number of museums and heritage sites in the Boston area. The internship is an exciting opportunity to build knowledge of material culture and decorative arts, museum and non-profit collections management, and database creation.

The Boston Furniture Archive is free, online database that provides catalog information and photographs of furniture produced in Boston between 1630 and 1930. Visit https://bostonfurniture.winterthur.org/ to access the database and learn more about the project.

Interns will receive a stipend of $5,000 plus $1,000 for travel over the twelve weeks. Housing is not provided.

Please visit https://www.winterthur.org/pdfs/boston_furniture_internship.pdf for more information and application instructions. Applications are due February 1, 2016.

The NJ Historical Commission will be conducting needs assessments of organizations they serve and will be hiring paid interns for this in the spring.  For more information please contact Niquole Primiani, a program officer at the Commission at niquole.primiani@sas.nj.gov.

A new job position for an experienced archivist:https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/postings/14646

Want some experience behind the scenes?

For information about volunteer/internship positions at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania visit https://hsp.org/about-us/opportunities/volunteer.

An Archivist I position is open for the Philadelphia Department of Records, City Archives. To view the job description and application process visit:https://phila.peopleadmin.com/postings/25311 The application process is time sensitive. All applications are due December 11, 2015. If you have any questions about the application process contact the Office of Human Resources at 215-686-0880 or email hrhelpdesk@phila.gov.

The City Archives is the repository of the City’s official municipal records from the 1690s to the present. The Archives has 23,000 cubic feet of records, including photographs, maps, administrative and court records, and has the earliest and longest continuous run of birth and death records of any political subdivision of the Commonwealth.