Description: For Preservation Week, our team answered our burning, often ignorant questions about their biggest challenges, what they consider when treating objects, and beyond.
Description: Help us identify images from the 1930s, photographed by Ruel P. Tolman, Curator and Director of the Smithsonian’s National Collection of Fine Arts.
Description: A photograph of Charles Greeley Abbot belonging to the Smithsonian Archives was in need of conservation. The photograph is stable, but the board to which the photograph is mounted is broken into three pieces. The board was stabilized and placed into a new housing constructed with rare earth magnets to impose a slight pressure on the object. The new housing holds the object
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