PLEASE POST: Clement Ellis Conger Internship 2006 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 2006 Clement Ellis Conger Internship to an individual interested in the care of museum collections. This summer's Conger Intern will take the lead on a project to improve the storage and record keeping of the Society's museum collections. Duties include housing and cataloging artifacts and preparing a study on reorganizing museum storage. The internship carries a $1,500 stipend through the generosity of the John Jay Hopkins Foundation. Applicants should be graduate students studying history, art history, material culture studies, museum studies, or related subjects who are interested in a future museum career. Students with a dedicated interest in the eras of the American Revolution and/or the Gilded Age are strongly encouraged to apply. The Conger Internship requires a minimum of six weeks of full-time work or ten weeks of part-time work. Start and end dates are flexible. Founded in 1783, the Society of the Cincinnati is the nation's oldest patriotic organization, established by American officers of the Continental army and navy to preserve the ideals and fellowship for which they had fought. The Society of the Cincinnati strives to promote public interest and scholarship in the American Revolution, the Society of the Cincinnati, and Anderson House, a 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. Please send a letter of interest and resume by March 31, 2006, to: Emily Schulz Deputy Director and Curator of Collections The Society of the Cincinnati - Anderson House 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20008 [log in to unmask] Fax (202) 785-0729 ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).