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    1. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

      Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

      • Date: July 6, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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    3. Two graphics of one large and one small folder. The color of the top of the folder is small but the lower later reveals a map.

      World of Maps Project - Preventive Conservation Actions

      • Date: February 26, 2019
      • Description: Explore our interns’ new techniques for preservation of maps at NMNH: a map transportation tool, a rehousing plan, and training for volunteers.

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    5. 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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    7. Inappropriate Attachments: When Good Intentions Go Bad! (Gallery of Horrors Part II)

      • Date: November 28, 2012
      • Creator: Janelle Batkin-Hall
      • Description: A highlight of inappropriate paper attachments found in a Smithsonian Institution Archives collection.

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    9. An attendee at “Don’t Rock the Cradle” examines magnetic strapping in the marketplace. Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015.

      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.

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      Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack

      • Date: July 26, 2016
      • Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.

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      Welcome to the Gallery of Horrors! (Enter if you dare!)

      • Date: October 31, 2012
      • Description: Conservators present horrible things that have happened to perfectly good archives, using images in a Flickr slideshow.

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    15. Marguerite Roby, Photograph Archivist, Smithsonian Institution Archives

      Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions October 29th

      • Date: October 28, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Ask Smithsonian conservators and archivists questions about your personal collection on Facebook, Tuesday, October 29th.

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      Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions Thursday, October 22

      • Date: October 15, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In honor of Archives Month, it’s time for the Smithsonian’s annual Facebook Q&A where the public can ask questions about preserving and organizing their own collections!

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    19. Portrait of Marine biologist, Dr. Nancy Knowlton

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Nancy Knowlton

      • Date: December 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In honor of Dr. Knowlton winning the Smithsonian Secretary's Distinguished Scholar Award. Marine biologist, Dr. Nancy Knowlton, National Museum of Natural History, uses advanced molecular methods combined with globally standardized sampling to explore the hidden diversity that has been ignored by traditional approaches, a key component of the Smithsonian’s MarineGeo program.

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    21. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

      Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

      • Date: August 25, 2015
      • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

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    23. Michael Pahn, Media Archivist, National Museum of the American Indian.

      Who's Answering Your Questions

      • Date: October 16, 2012
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Meet the people who will be answering your questions about your personal archives from 10-5, today, October 17th, 2012.

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