HomeMy WebLinkAbout07302020 Collections Working Gp minsCollections Working Group
Tuesday, 5 PM —July 30, 2020
Sanford Museum 520 East First St. Sanford, FL
Minutes
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Meeting called to order: 5:10 PM 61
Attendance:
Brigitte Stephenson, Museum Curator
Savannah Bitto-Poole, Museum Curatorial Assistant
Scott Carpenter, Advisory Chairman
Joyce Qualls
Keara Thomas
Ms. Stephenson explained that the Museum's collection policy is very broad and was originally
only about Henry Sanford. However, in the 1990's the Museum expanded the collection to
include the history of the greater Sanford area? Resulting in a large amount of items being
donated to the Museum. With this extensive collection, the Museum is currently limited on
space and in need of assistance from the Collections working group in determining what items
should or should not be collected.
Ms. Stephenson had two items to review with the group. Those items were a church plate from
the First Presbyterian Church, which was open for 100 years and a cannonball. The cannonball
was found in 1961 or 1964, near or possibly on the actual site of Ft. Mellon, this would have
been during the time period of the second Seminole Wars.
The Museum currently already has an identical church plate, therefore the group has decided
not to accept the duplicate church plate. However they have decide to accepted the cannonball
based on its relevance to Ft. Mellon and the provenance that accompanied it. It was discussed
that the cannonball can be displayed with other similar cannonballs already in the collection.
The group concluded the meeting with a tour of the the Museum to see all of the items that are
in the Museum.
Meeting adjourned at 5:30 PM.
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