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Meet Nicole Hosette, South Dakota State Historical Society

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Abstract

I started graduate school at Simmons knowing I wanted to work with paper. Beyond that, I couldn’t say; maybe I wanted to work in an academic archive, maybe a local historical society, maybe a quirky museum. That mattered much less, as long as I could be custodian to records created dozens or, if I was lucky, hundreds of years ago. My first processing internship in my very first semester of school proved it: handling 200-year-old letters and muster rolls and receipts, the smell and the feel of the paper in my hands, imagining the people whose penmanship graced the pages and whose eyes drank in the words just like I was now. It felt like I was literally touching history, and the idea of doing this as a career couldn’t have made me any happier.

How to Cite:

Hosette, N., (2019) “Meet Nicole Hosette, South Dakota State Historical Society”, MAC Newsletter 47(1), 38–39. doi: https://doi.org//macnewsletter.11117