Bonnetry
(I did most of this entry about a month ago, so it makes reference to Things Happening and I'm just noting that they happened several weeks ago, not recently.) At work I've moved completely into Putting Numbers On Things. This is in two categories: Finding Things' Original Numbers, and Giving Things New Numbers. The former is preferable, because it means you have some provenance and can prove the museum owns it, which is very important if you want to deaccession an item, but it can be pretty difficult, so I've been doing a lot of the latter. One of the objects I gave a new number to on Friday was a bonnet quite like the Allie model in Mrs. Parker's Millinery and Mercantile . (Quite, quite like - the milliner says it's based off one in her collection, and there's another one that's almost identical to it at the Chapman, so that's interesting.) Since I was looking it over for any kind of number I noticed that it was in pretty bad shape, allowin...