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  1. Whiteboards and poster boards are covered in post-its. It’s difficult to make out what they say. Temporary desks are below the boards.

    Take a picture, it’ll last longer

    • Date: November 2, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: On what better day than Election Day to follow up on that tidbit I dropped a couple weeks ago regarding a consultation about then-candidate Barack Obama’s dry-erase boards, a recent acquisition by the National Museum of African American History and Culture? These artifacts, along with archival material and other realia (in archives terms: a man-made three-dimensional object)

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  3. Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives

    • Date: May 2, 2013
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: The conservator considers potential damage to and from matchbooks in collections.

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  5. Staff from the Archives Nationales d'Haiti and the CSBC.

    Archives Conservation in Haiti, Part 1

    • Date: December 13, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: This is the first of two posts on the Archives' conservators’ work with the Smithsonian’s Haiti Cultural Recovery project, which works to rescue and safeguard objects damaged by the 2010 earthquake.

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  7. Leech jars, as seen at the New York Academy of Medicine. Courtesy of Nora Lockshin. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

    Leeches ’n Labels

    • Date: October 29, 2015
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Terrifying tips for marking on museum objects lurks within our annual Halloween themed post.

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  9. The original black-paged album, a document box with archival file folders for historic documents and oversize pictures, and the new preservation album, with the photos stabilized with Mylar corners (also, note a piece of thick paper, acrylic square, and the small glass frog paperweight, which were placed on the photograph to keep it in place while the corners were slipped on from the sides).

    Thanks(giving) for the memories—a preservation family project

    • Date: November 24, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: When you’re all gathered together, sometimes there are just too many cooks in the kitchen, or younger siblings underfoot. Not everyone is into football or jigsaw puzzles, so why not gather together a couple of people from separate generations and branches of the family tree and do some photo identification and preservation? Set aside an hour between or after the meal to pull

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  11. Facing our Fears

    • Date: October 30, 2018
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: An unusually serious Halloween post in which we dress up to stage a mock recovery from a museum fire.

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  13. Blog Post

    Happy paper anniversary?

    • Date: October 7, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_8465" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Beth Antoine, Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation, conducts research on the letter or copy press books of Secretary Spencer F. Baird, Courtesy of Nora Lockshin."][/caption] One year ago on October 8th, after several years of planning, waiting, and building, the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation

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  15. Summer School

    • Date: August 7, 2012
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: The Archives’ conservation lab hosts the FAIC "Master Studies" Workshop: "Conservation of Transparent Papers" with Hildegard Homburger.

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  17. Happy Tin-th Anniversary!

    • Date: October 8, 2019
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: A retrospective photo trip down the Archives’ conservation lab memory lane, featuring folks from past and present.

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  19. Spirit Photograph, Harry Houdini with Ghost of Abraham Lincoln, by Harry Houdini, via Wikimedia Commons, Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

    Panoramic Panic Part III

    • Date: October 30, 2014
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Our conservator shares some scary and not-so-scary advice on dealing with rolled panoramic photographs.

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  21. We discuss strategies to preserve brittle black page albums.

    Ask the Smithsonian, Again!

    • Date: October 4, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  23. Blog Post

    A Sense of Place

    • Date: February 24, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_11498" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Out of The Depths, or, the Triumph of the Cross by Nellie Arnold Plummer. AHC 2003.0025.1, in its custom clamshell box after full conservation (inset: before treatment condition), Courtesy Nora Lockshin and Anacostia Community Museum."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be

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