Results for "Conservators"
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Smithsonian's Photo Summit
- Date: October 12, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Installation View of Smithsonian Photography Exhibition Art Section, by Thomas Smillie, c.
Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action
- Date: April 28, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Catherine Eagleton
- Date: March 15, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
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.
Link Love: 5/9/2012
- Date: May 9, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
In the Name of Science
- Date: February 3, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: As some of you reading this know, we enjoy getting to know fascinating women in science throughout our collections and in the Smithsonian's history. We enjoy it so much that one of us decided we needed a set of LEGO women scientists. Over lunch, we assembled the the sets with some trepidation as it had been years since our previous LEGO adventures. We had fun playing and
Hold your fire! Fire prevention in archives, museums, and libraries
- Date: February 7, 2012
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Discussion of fires and fire prevention in museums, libraries, and archives, with resources.
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Conservation and Chrysanthemums
- Date: September 7, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Glass lantern slide of Roscrana in Glencoe, Illinois, 1930. The garden includes white tulips, blue forget-me-nots and allee of trees. Unidentified Photographer. Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution. "][/caption] In the 1960s, during the process of planning a kitchen remodel at its headquarters in New York
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Link Love: 6/3/2011
- Date: June 3, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="186" caption="Waistcoat, France, 1790, Silk embroidery on silk plain weave, linen back, 60 x 50 cm (23 5/8 x 19 11/16 in.), Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf, Photo: Steve Tague, Courtesy of the Cooper-Hewitt
Coffee, tea or mold?
- Date: September 29, 2022
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: We’re lucky that our interns love coffee, because for this summer’s final project, I selected Russell Greenberg’s Field notes, Xalapa and Chiapas, Mexico, 2001 for a full conservation treatment. If you’ve not had your morning cup yet, you may be wondering why we celebrate his work on National Coffee Day. Dr. Greenberg was an ornithologist, founder and director of the
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Link Love: 7/23/2010
- Date: July 23, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Visitors: Share photos of your trip to the Smithsonian museums in this new Flickr set! Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes posts an interview with Secretary Clough that includes a mention of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Institution’s overall prioritization of digitizing and archiving photographs. Time sink! The BBC launched a World Music Archive this morning! There
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Link Love: 11/28/2014
- Date: November 28, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.