I always forget my camera when I do cool things.
Today at work was our new employee orientation, which was interesting because I have worked there for a month! I was not looking forward to it because it was going to be all day, and sounded really boring, but it actually was pretty cool! We went on a tour of the library and got to go into the vaults. They have one vault that is kept at 55 degrees and another at -4 degrees! Brrr! Then we went into the Audio/Visual preservation lab. We got to hear a recording from the late 1800s of Wilford Woodruff when he was 91 years old! And we watched footage from 1916 of President Joseph F. Smith, and other high profile people. And a clip of when President Monson became a member of the 12 in 1963. Later on in the orientation we went up to the document preservation lab and they talked to us about what they do to preserve the documents and the correct way to handle any original documents we might use. After lunch we went to the Church History Museum and got to take a tour of their behind the scenes places. The coolest was their preservation lab (lots of preserving going on). There was a dress that they were preparing to go to BYU for an exhibit in Special Collections. It was an English woman's wedding dress. A couple of years after she got married, they were baptized and emigrated to America and she brought the dress along. She and her family were members of the Willie handcart company, and she brought her dress along with her then too! Then there was a silk apron with beautiful embroidery on it. Apparently, Queen Victoria made it!! QUEEN VICTORIA!! How cool is that?! I so wanted to touch it.
These artifacts are so cool because they are like bridges between the past and the future. A little bit of history still living in our day. Amazing.
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