1. Entering Stewart-Swift Research Center from the Adèle Pierce Gallery of the Sheldon Museum.
2. Archival Assistant Taylor Rossini working in the public Reading Room on the NEH grant-funded project that was awarded to the Research Center in 2020.
3. Archival Vault where we store over 200 years of local newspapers, historic maps, plans and blueprints.
4. Staircase leading to our basement archival storage rooms.
5. Flat File room where we store artwork, large posters, ephemera, documents, maps and framed items, all filled to capacity.
6. Large ephemera, such as these political posters, are stored in these flat files.
7. Lucinda Cockrell, an RC volunteer and Sheldon Trustee, is working on one of the NEH-funded projects—a finding aid to the ephemera collection.
8. Entering climate-controlled main archival storage.
9. We store our most valuable manuscripts, documents, books, photographs and other materials in this climate-controlled room.
10. Rare books, atlases, and local imprints are stored on these shelves.
11. This room is utilized to its capacity with movable shelves to save space, and large framed posters and prints hang on the walls.
12. Archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart working in her office.
13. Inside the Mechanical Room. We recently upgraded our environmental system that monitors archival storage conditions to preserve archival documents for future generations.