The Washington Conservation Guild is a nonprofit organization of conservation professionals, based in Washington, D.C. While serving primarily as a forum for exchange of information among its members, the Guild also seeks to help non-conservators learn more about caring for their own art and artifacts.

This collection includes newsletters; records kept by presidents, secretaries, and treasurers; membership information; meeting announcements; records of the nominating, bylaws and public outreach committees; and materials documenting lectures, workshops, seminars, publications and meetings.

Box 1 of 4

• Washington Conservation Guild Newsletters 1976 through 2005 [27 folders]
• Newsletter Report, 1986
• Newsletter Editor (Ellen McCrady), 1980
• Newsletter Editor (Kathleen Betts), 1985
• Secretary (Alan Albright) papers 1968-1969
• Secretary (Bethune Gibson) papers 1969-1972
• Secretary (Joseph Columbus) papers 1972-1973
• Secretary (Martha Goodway) papers 1973-1975
• Secretary (Martha Goodway) papers, National Museum Act Program Grants 1974-1975
• Secretary (Barbara Coffee) papers 1975-1977
• Secretary (Jane Norman ) papers 1977-1978
• Recording Secretary (Joan Mishara) papers 1978-1980
• Recording Secretary (Merrily Smith) papers 1980-1982
• Recording Secretary (Karen Garlick) papers 1982-1984
• Recording Secretary (Doris Hamburg) papers 1984-1985
• Recording Secretary (Christine Smith ) papers 1987-1988
• Recording Secretary (Dianne van der Reyden ) papers 1988-1989
• Recording Secretary (Ingrid Neuman) papers 1991-1993
• Recording Secretary papers 1993-1995
• Recording Secretary (Rae Beaubien) papers 1994-1996
• Recording Secretary (Marjory Cleveland) papers 1996
• Recording Secretary (Rosemary Fallon) papers 2001-2003
• Recording Secretary (Susan Peckham) papers 2003-2004
• Membership Lists 1970 through 1980 (11 folders)
• Membership Directory 1980-2005 (missing 2001, 2003) (15 folders)
• Membership Secretary (Emily Klayman/Jacobson) papers 1997-1999
• Membership Secretary papers 2003-2005

Box 2 of 4

• Members meeting announcements 1967 through 2000 (missing 1975-1978, 1994-95, 1998-2000) (29 folders)
• Old meeting announcements
• Meeting announcements 1998-1999
• Meeting announcements 2000-2001
• Meeting announcements 2001-2002
• Meeting announcements 2002-2003
• E. W. Fitzhugh, Membership records, schedule of mailings 1978
• Treasurer 1967
• Treasurer (Peter Powers) papers 1967-1968
• Treasurer (Geoffrey Lemmer) papers 1969-1970
• Treasurer (Fonda Thomsen) papers 1970-1972
• Treasurer (S. Williston) papers 1972-1974
• Treasurer (Walter Angst) papers 1974-1975
• Treasurer (Peter Michaels) papers 1975-1977
• Treasurer (Dennis Dobson) papers 1977-1978
• Treasurer (Cornelia Gill) papers 1978-1980
• Treasurer (Nikki Horton) papers 1980-1982
• Treasurer (Margaret Randall Ash) papers 1982-1984
• Treasurer (Melanie Gifford) papers 1984-1985
• Treasurer (Karen Garlick) papers 1985-1986
• Treasurer (Mary Ballard) papers 1988-1990
• Treasurer (Melba Myers) papers 1991-1992
• Treasurer (Peter Mecklenburg) papers 1992-1993
• Treasurer (Erica James) papers 2000-2002
• President (Robert M. Organ) papers 1967- 1968
• President (James B. Smith) papers 1971-1973
• President (Victor Covey) papers 1974
• President (Peter Waters) papers 1975
• President (Martha Goodway) papers 1975-c.1977
• President (Stewart Treviranus) papers 1977-1979
• President (Eleanor McMillan) papers 1979-1981
• President (Marian Dirda) papers 1981-1983
• President (Merrily Smith) papers 1983-1985
• President (Carolyn Rose) papers 1986-1987
• President (Scott Odell) papers 1988-1989
• Vice President (Shelley Sturman) papers 1988-1989
• President (Arthur Page) papers 1991-1992
• President (Ed McManus) papers 2000-2001
• President (Linda Edquist) papers 2001-2003
• Vice President (Emily Jacobson) papers 2002-2003
• President (Emily Jacobson) papers 2003-2005
• Annual Report 2003-2004
• Vice President (Lisa Young) papers 2004-2005
• Nominating Committee 1968-1993
• Nominating Committee 2000-2002
• Nominating Committee 2003-2004
• Bylaws Committee 1968
• Bylaws Committee 1969
• Bylaws Committee 1972
• Bylaws Committee 1974
• Bylaws Committee 1976
• Bylaws Committee 1980
• Bylaws Committee 1986

Box 3 of 4

• WCG Public Outreach Committee Photographs
• WCG Public Outreach Committee Booth and Business cards
• WCG Public Outreach Committee Booth
• WCG Public Outreach Committee Public Events 1993
• WCG Public Outreach Committee Brochure 1994
• WCG Public Outreach Committee Public Events 1994-1996
• WCG Public Outreach Committee Public Events 1997
• WCG Public Outreach Committee Website 1997
• WCG Public Outreach Committee Brochure 1998
• WCG Public Outreach Committee Public Events 2005 (Nancy Pollak)
• Intern Committee (Joanne Klaar) 2004-2005
• Seminar on photography in conservation, 1968
• Microscopy for Conservators, 1973 (National Collection of Fine Arts, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, instructor: Walter McCrone)
• Rutherford J. Gettens Memorial Lecture, 1973 ("Silver in Ancient Greece and Byzantiou: Production and Art" Professor Constantin Conophagos)
• Synthetic Resins in Conservation, 1974 (instructor: Robert Feller) [no contents in folder]
• Conservation of the Wasa, 1975 (Library of Congress, Washington, DC, lecturer: Lars- Kvarning)
• R. J. Gettens Memorial Lecture, 1975 (Laboratory Studies and Enjoyment of Art, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, lecturer: Cyril Stanley Smith) [no contents in folder]
• The Corrosion of Bronze and Other Ancient Metals, 1975 (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, instructor: Marcel Pourbaix)
• Tour of Walters Art Gallery and Conservation Department, Baltimore, MD, 1976
• Treasures of Tutankamen Viewing, 1977
• Cleaning of paintings, 1979 (Georgetown University, Washington, DC)
• Microscopy for Conservators, 1978
• International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Congress, 1982, Washington, DC
• Pests, 1985 (Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, 3 audiocassette tapes)
• Legal aspects of conservation (Robert Feller), 1985 and Robert Feller (no date) [2 audiocassette tapes]
• Health Hazards seminar, 1986 (Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, instructor: Monona Rossol)
• CAL lecture 5502, 1989 (Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC) and CAL lecture #7321, 1989 (Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC) [2 audiocassette tapes]
• X-Radiography course, 1992 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
• "Preserving the Past" J. Paul Getty Museum videotape and video script
• WCG/Association for Preservation Technology, April 14, 1994
• Woodrow Wilson House 1995 Dupont/Kalorama House Tour
• WCG 30th Anniversary (1997) audiotape
• Special Project (2000) T-shirts
• Scientific Methodology Course (NPS, 2000) Instructor, Chandra Reedy
• Angel Project 2002, Friendship Fire Association

Box 4 of 4

• International Institute for Conservation (IIC) Congress Baltimore 2002 (2 folders)
• IIC Contract
• IIC Exhibitors/posters
• IIC Banquet/Reception
• IIC Debbie Nolan, consultant
• IIC Tours
• IIC Hotel
• IIC Fundraising
• Publication Conservation Resources for Arts and Antiques [CRFAA] 2001
• CRFAA Sales 1/4/01 through 9/22/04
• CRFAA Fulfillment Committee report 2003
• CRFAA Directory Entries
• CRFAA Advertising
• CRFAA Publications Committee
• CRFAA Copyright
• CRFAA Editorial Committee
• Chapter 1 Environment drafts
• Chapter 2 Western Painting drafts
• Chapter 3 Portrait Miniatures drafts
• Chapter 4 Paper drafts
• Chapter 5 Photographs drafts
• Chapter 6 Books drafts
• Chapter 7 Textiles drafts
• Chapter 8 Archeological Objects drafts
• Chapter 9 Ethnographic Objects drafts
• Chapter 10 Metals drafts
• Chapter 11 Glass and ceramics drafts
• Chapter 12 Stone Objects drafts
• Chapter 13 Outdoor Sculpture drafts
• Chapter 14 Wood drafts
• WCG Officer & Director Handbook 2003/2004; 2005/2006
• AIC Special Recognition Award to WCG (2003)
• Photographs of Elizabeth Packard
• Sidney Williston Fund
• Angels Project, Congressional Cemetery, October 2004