Internships at Peebles Island Resource Center

Textile Conservation Internship
Peebles Island Resource Center

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic
Preservation's Peebles Island Resource Center is offering  summer
internships in Textile Conservation. The stipend for the eight-week
internship is $3,000. Applicants must have completed at least one
year of a conservation graduate program or have had at least one
full-time year of apprenticeship training in a textile conservation
lab.

The intern will work with the Textile Conservator and Assistant
Textile Conservator on the New York State Battle Flag Preservation
Program. Projects will include documentation and stabilization
treatments of Civil War flags from the collection of the New York
State Division of Military and Naval Affairs.

Peebles Island is located 15 miles north of Albany, NY.  To apply,
please send a resume and cover letter to:

    John Lovell
    Assistant Director
    NYSOPRHP/Bureau of Historic Sites
    Peebles Island Resource Center
    PO Box 219
    Waterford NY 12188

Deborah Lee Trupin
Textile Conservator
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Bureau of Historic Sites
Peebles Island
PO Box 219
Waterford, NY 12188   USA
518-237-8643 ext. 3241


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