Results for "Communication: It's More Than Sound (Motion picture : 1982)"
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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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
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.
Protection of Collections during Retrofit or Renovation
- Date: May 2, 2019
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Yesterday, we celebrated MayDay2019 by reviewing the contents of Nora’s PRICE team go-bag, which you can explore in this Facebook Live, courtesy of the Foundation for the Advancement of Conservation!This MayDay post comes to you at a time when cultural heritage disasters on a mass scale are fresh in people’s minds. Paying attention to high visibility events offers opportunity
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On the Conservation of Champions
- Date: July 19, 2012
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: A look at the preservation of a box of Wheaties cereal featuring Native American Olympian, Jim Thorpe, how ordinary objects become museum icons, and the problem of food in museum collections.
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Return of…the Beast
- Date: October 31, 2019
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: In a return to the seasonal bonfire, we look at how fire and its suppression impacts boxed and unboxed optical disks.
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.
The Mold…RETURNS! (Mad Scientist edition)
- Date: November 1, 2016
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Our annual creepy Halloween post returns, like the undead, and so many moldy oldie film franchises. A silly wink at a serious subject.
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And don’t forget your badge this time!
- Date: January 2, 2018
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Despite my long experience responding to many an incident affecting cultural heritage infrastructure and collections, since 2016, I have gained valuable experience living through the Atlantic hurricane season from the perspectives of both a professional immersed in the disaster lifecycle (preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation), and the individuals, businesses, and
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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May Day Motto: Be Prepared
- Date: May 2, 2011
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: In honor of the Heritage Preservation organization’s annual MayDay initiative to protect cultural heritage from disasters, the Archives will be highlighting how we deal with emergencies and how you can prepare yourself in a series of blog posts. [caption id="attachment_12763" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="This image is quite dark for a reason—in an emergency
But all I've got is a photograph . . . or an autograph?
- Date: April 29, 2014
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Watch how we make invisible Beatles’ autographs visible with Reflectance Transform Imaging, a technique for forensic document examination.