Clement Ellis Conger Museum Internship 2005

The Society of the Cincinnati, a non-profit institution that maintains its
historic house museum and research library at Anderson House in Washington,
D.C., offers the Clement Ellis Conger Museum Internship to an individual
interested in the care and research of museum collections.  Founded in 1783
by American officers of the Continental army and navy, the Society strives
to promote public interest in the American Revolution, the Society of the
Cincinnati, and Anderson House, a designated National Historic Landmark.
This Beaux Arts mansion, designed by Little & Browne of Boston, was built
between 1902 and 1905 as the winter residence of Larz Anderson, an American
diplomat, and his wife, Isabel Weld Perkins, an author and Red Cross
volunteer.

During the summer of 2005, the intern will have the opportunity to
participate in and contribute to the operation of a historic house museum,
particularly in the areas of curatorial and collections management work.
The internship is named after Clement Ellis Conger, former curator of the
Diplomatic Reception Rooms and member of the Society of the Cincinnati.
Through the generosity of the John Jay Hopkins Foundation, the internship
carries a $1,000 stipend.

Possible projects include, but are not limited to:
- Completing an ongoing inventory of the books in the Andersons’ original
library and preparing a study on the interpretation of this library.
- Conducting object research on the Wetenhall-de Courcy-May portraits, a
collection of 28 works dating from the 17th through the 19th centuries
related to an early Maryland family.
- Registering the portraits in the Society’s collections with the Catalog
of American Portraits maintained by the National Portrait Gallery.
- Locating and researching existing Society of the Cincinnati Eagle
insignia badges for a survey of those owned by original Society members.
- Preparing reference notebooks for each of the museum rooms to contain
artifact information and locations to assist docents on tours.

Applicants should be students who will have completed at least three years
of undergraduate work studying history, art history, material culture
studies, museum studies, or related topics.  Please send a letter of
interest and resume by April 22, 2005, to:

Emily Schulz
Curator of Collections
The Society of the Cincinnati – Anderson House
2118 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC  20008
fax (202) 785-0729
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