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A huge and rare 14th century Koran, too fragile to be displayed, will be digitized by the University of Manchester and displayed online. Keep up with the progress on the project’s blog. - “There were 204 photo printing labs in and around London in 2006 . . . By 2009, only six remained.” Check out the story and a slideshow of the now-antiquated technology of print photography.
- Two former Indiana Museum of Art interns write about the road to conservation grad school.
- Double, double toil and trouble… Conservationists describe how they restored a discolored and damaged an early map of New York City by dying the book with a “brackish stew” of baked and boiled old books.
- A new app teams up with the National September 11 Memorial and Museum to start to give voice to some 2,000 oral histories from individuals who shared their experiences of that fateful day [via Resource Shelf].
- How to date old photographs with horse brands (?!).
- The National Archive has launched its first mobile app—Today’s Document. Check out the details in the video below:
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