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Processing note in front matter:
"Much of the collection was originally processed in large cartons containing 3 boxes each that are now being removed and shelved separately. Each of those inner boxes had a sequential number that differed from the "carton" number. For example, inner boxes 150-152 were removed from a large box labeled "carton" 10. Though the box label still says "carton", the finding aid was changed to say "box", thus creating two series of separate numbering systems, resulting in 2 or more boxes with the same number.
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Eventually the numbering will be restored to a single sequence which follows that of the inner boxes, but for now, the finding aid will note, for example, that "Box 150 was formerly one of 3 boxes in Carton 10", etc."
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Some items do not have locations because they were not listed on the original CARTON labels, and somehow that information was lost when the finding aid was converted to AS.
End processor does NOT have a printout of all the labels for this collection, unlike most other collections, because it was end processed at a time when the cataloger was the only one allowed to send boxes to HD. When the end processor took over this responsibility, they started the practice of retaining box labels for large collections that went to HD. These are kept in notebooks at the end processor’s workstation, marked “HD”. For items such as these, if after checking the contents of the box, the item is not found there, add "item (181) is not listed on the label for Box 151 (formerly carton 10) and is not in Box 151 as of 5/7/20204"
Collections with no. 17 boxes in progress:
MS Eng 1401 (Empson)
Physical Management : What to do, What not to do:
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