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    1. A screenshot of a data table used for recording the condition of discs. The left side contains label information for the discs and the upper right side lists different types of damages.

      Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part I

      • Date: September 2, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This is part one of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’ll introduce the project.

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    3. Photo of a women working on treatment of a poster of Uncle Sam. The caption below her reads: Eleanor McMillan, Conservator, Smithsonian’s Conservation Analytical Laboratory, 1963–94, supervised conservation projects and educational and training programs. After retirement, McMillan provided initial funding for the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation and donated her 1965 Ford Mustang to Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. #Groundbreaker

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Eleanor McMillan

      • Date: February 19, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Eleanor McMillan, Conservator, Smithsonian’s Conservation Analytical Laboratory, 1963–94, supervised conservation projects and educational and training programs. Although she began as a generalist, McMillan became the first paper conservator in the laboratory. After retirement, she provided initial funding for the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation and donated her

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    5. Black and white image of Harry Walters, Navajo male, holding a blanket in a museum collection storage area.

      Harry Walters - Director of the Diné College Museum, 1973-2008

      • Date: July 30, 2020
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Before becoming the Director of the Diné College Museum in Arizona, Harry Walters spent three months at the Smithsonian learning techniques for the care and handling of artifacts, including their identification, description, conservation, storage, and exhibition.

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    7. At left, a brown-haired man leafs through a folder of archival correspondence laying on a white work table, while a brown-haired woman takes notes on her laptop, which is perched atop a gray library cart laden with archival storage boxes.

      Finding Our Way Ahead

      • Date: June 16, 2022
      • Description: Since our last post, we have moved back to working on site in our new, hybrid normal. See how our proposals for new workflows are turning out!

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    9. An interfiled audio record.

      What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections

      • Date: April 21, 2016
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.

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    11. Moulted Snake Skin, Record Unit 7067 - James G. Cooper Papers

      Flattened Between the Pages

      • Date: July 2, 2013
      • Description: Memorable illustrations, photographs, and plant and animal specimens found pressed between the pages from the Field Book Project.

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    13. Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist

      • Date: June 29, 2021
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.

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    15. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

      Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

      • Date: April 27, 2017
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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      An Intern’s Perspective on Preserving Scrapbooks and Conserving Blueprints

      • Date: August 30, 2018
      • Description: Preservation intern discusses working with oversize materials in the Archives collection, including information on the creation of custom enclosures, surface cleaning of blueprints, and humidification.

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    19. A Beaver Corral, Fried Owl, and Pueblos: Adventures with Vernon Orlando Bailey

      • Date: August 20, 2013
      • Description: Examination and conservation treatment of V.O. Bailey’s field book chronicling a 1906 expedition through Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

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    21. Five CDs and a color card against a black background.

      Glaring Discs: Photographic Condition Documentation of Reflective Surfaces

      • Date: March 19, 2020
      • Description: The challenges of imaging the shiny surfaces of optical discs including CDs and DVDs.

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    23. Mary Rice standing in front of a laboratory building at the Smithsonian Marine State at Fort Pierce.

      Science Conversations in the Shenandoah

      • Date: September 6, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.

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