Another successful American Institute of Conservation Conference is in the book for the Smithsonian Institution Archives Conservation Team.

See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

See how one collection of field books yielded a variety of challenges and treatments for the Archives’ conservators.

Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific expeditions. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt’s correspondence reveals some of the difficulties he encountered between 1925 and 1930 while traveling for his research with the Smithsonian.

August is National Parks Month, but the Smithsonian has celebrated the National Park Service for decades! Enjoy a selection of national parks images from the Archives' collection.

Go on a picnic through the field book collection, with a look at scientific snack breaks.

Snapshots of cute baby animals, taken during the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies in 1937.

Treatment continues on Paul Bartsch’s field book documenting nudibranchs—see our progress!