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Debbie Sanders is interviewed by Karen Brewster on May 13, 2019 in Star Valley, Arizona.
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Debbie Sanders is interviewed by Karen Brewster on May 13, 2019 in Star Valley, Arizona.
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Recorded at the home of Debbie Sanders in Star Valley, Arizona on May 13, 2019.
Abstract:
Debbie Sanders talks about her personal background, studying environmental interpretation at Colorado State University, her seasonal work with the National Park Service, her first permanent job as a museum technician at Hubbell Trading Post in Arizona, Mount Rainier, Chiricahua National Monument, Grand Portage, moving to Skagway in 1991 to work as the museum specialist, training in curatorial skills with the National Park Service and the Campbell Institute, upgrading to the museum curator, Betsy Duncan-Clark, the Moore House restoration, working on ethnographic and historical objects, what is included in the archives collection, organizing materials, descriptions, records for digital images, their database system for cataloging, managing a natural history collection, locations for collections, the Rapuzzi Collection and some of the items in the collection, her work on Soapy Smith's, photographs from the Rapuzzi Collection, Ron Klein, the Martin Itjen street car, dividing the Collection between the National Park Service and the city museum, Judy Munns, selecting items within their scope of collections, the role of the curator in exhibits, contractors work on the exhibits, her restoration work on Moore House and the cabin, Soapy Smith Museum, funding for collections, processing of collections, using material to teach the public, living in Skagway, leaving Skagway in 2010, her involvement in interests outside of the Park Service, Collections Inventory and Monitoring on the Chilkoot Trail, some of the artifacts on the trail, the White Pass Unit, Minnie Moore, ethnographic collections, collections in the city museum, interaction with the Seattle Unit, her early career with the National Park Service, influences on her career choice, how the Park Service has changed, the different styles of different superintendents, the Moore House property debate, her experience working in Skagway, and Phylllis Brown.
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