The City Lore Archive (https://citylore.org/archive) is looking to fill two (2) paid Archives Internship positions for Summer 2025 for work on a large digitization & access grant that covers our entire collection. Interns are expected to be current or recent graduate students interested in Archives, Folklore, and/or Public History. The main responsibilities would be to inventory and catalog our current Audio-Visual and photographic holdings and to prep them for third-party digitization.
All interns will be directly supervised and trained by City Lore’s archivist Seth Schonberg, and can expect to handle a wide range of time-based media formats and/or photographic materials, and can expect to contribute to publishing access documentation at the successful conclusion of the grant.
This is the first of three pairs of paid internships we will be offering, continuing in Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. Future responsibilities are expected to include Cataloging of A/V and Photographic digital transfers, and translating, and then publishing, our current digital catalog onto ArchiveSpace for public accessibility. Returning candidates will be favored for the remainder of these grant internships.
This is a paid internship. 16 hours/week is desired but negotiable and will be exclusively on-site at the City Lore offices.
City Lore (https://citylore.org/) is a non-profit in Lower Manhattan which has focused on communicating and documenting the ethnic culture and folklife of New York City communities for the last 40 years. A large percentage of our collections has recently been acquired by the American Folklife Center at Library of Congress, and we have recently received a grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to digitize more of our collection, and to make our catalog of the entirety of our collections publicly accessible.
Contact: Seth Schonberg, City Lore Archivist at seth@citylore.org
