New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation's Peebles Island Resource Center is offering  summer internships in Textile Conservation. The stipend for the eight-week internship is $3,000. Applicants must have completed at least one year of a conservation graduate program or have had at least one full-time year of apprentice training in a textile conservation lab.
 
The intern will work with the Textile Conservator and Assistant Textile Conservator on the New York State Battle Flag Preservation Program. Projects will include documentation and
stabilization treatments of Civil War flags from the collection of the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs.
 
Peebles Island is located 15 miles north of Albany, NY.  To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to:
 
    John Lovell
    Assistant Director
    NYSOPRHP/Bureau of Historic Sites
    Peebles Island Resource Center
    PO Box 219
    Waterford NY 12188
 
Deborah Lee Trupin
Textile Conservator
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Bureau of Historic Sites
Peebles Island
PO Box 219
Waterford, NY 12188   USA
518-237 8643 ext. 3241