Our Clients
We provide strategic and hands-on archival services
Union League Club of Chicago
Digitized the Union League Club of Chicago’s highly valued monthly news magazine, published continuously since 1920, encompassing approximately 1,200 issues.
The work included preparation, scanning and organization of decades of volumes, with careful attention to how the new digital collection would integrate into the archive’s existing structure and ensuring appropriate backups throughout the digitization process.
The project preserves a detailed record of club activities, interests, members and events while improving long-term access and research usability.
Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis
Conducted a comprehensive archival assessment and developed a strategic, phased plan to transform a volunteer-managed archive into a structured and sustainable institutional resource.
The plan focused on establishing intellectual control, improving organization and creating systems that make materials findable and usable beyond the one or two individuals previously overseeing the collection. By clarifying workflows, documentation practices and access points, the archive was positioned for broader engagement and long-term stewardship.
American Society for Surgery of the Hand
Reactivated the society’s dormant archive by designing and implementing a strategic plan that organized the 60-linear-foot ASSH collection, established intellectual control through a comprehensive finding aid and digitized materials that previously existed only in physical form.
Designed and installed in-house exhibitions using archival materials, activating the collection as a visible and valued institutional asset.
Naval Air Station Glenview Museum/Hangar One Foundation
Conducted an inventory of the Naval Air Station Glenview Museum’s collection and created an initial working catalog with basic metadata to establish intellectual control and make the scope and contents more understandable to non-specialists and outside sources.
Given the scale of the collection, Sepia implemented a community archiving approach, bringing archivists in training from Dominican University’s MLIS program into the project alongside the museum’s volunteer corps.
The project transformed a previously scantily documented body of artifacts from Naval Air Station Glenview (1937–1995) into a structured resource that highlights the historical significance and research value of the materials, strengthening the museum’s ability to move forward to its next phase.
Chicago Public Art Group
Developed and delivered a comprehensive strategic plan to organize the group’s dormant archive, which included 90 linear feet of papers, images and fine art.
Physically organized the collection, digitized select early project files and created a finding aid from scratch, giving the curatorial team the clarity and access needed to produce a successful 50th Anniversary exhibition and establishing the archive as an ongoing institutional resource for exhibitions, research and program development.
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute) University of Chicago
Developed a catalog of 1936 correspondence between the institute’s central leadership and its archaeological sites, using materials from the archive. This illuminated a defining period of institutional financial crisis and survival.
The project brought clarity to how both the broader organization and its field operations navigated a pivotal year. Working toward publication of that project.
Natya Dance Theatre
Digitized thousands of performance photographs, programs, invitations, brochures and reviews spanning four decades of the dance company’s history, transforming fragile materials into an accessible digital archive that supports institutional memory, marketing and future programming.
Philanthropic Education Organization
Digitized more than 100 years of meeting minutes for the Philanthropic Education Organization, Oak Park Chapter, safeguarding historically significant records while establishing a searchable digital resource that strengthens continuity, transparency and long-term stewardship.
"I spoke with several local companies but kept coming back to my conversations with Hilarie and how she listened and understood the project as an archivist – not just a technician. I am so happy we contracted with Sepia and for Hilarie’s ability to work with me through the issues that inevitably arise during a large-scale digitization project. I highly recommend!"
Cheryl Ziegler, MLIS
Archivist, Union League Club of Chicago