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  1. Fire at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, February 7, 2011.

    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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  3. 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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  5. Promotional black and white photograph of The Beatles, c. 1964, as seen in even, non-raking visible light. Courtesy of E. Keats Webb, Museum Conservation Institute. Accession 2014.02 - Harry Lynn Collection, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.

    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.

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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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    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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    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

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  13. 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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  15. The wording over the light blue poster is:

    MayDay as Earth Day

    • Date: April 30, 2020
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: As I write this crossover Preservation Week/MayDay post so close to Earth Day 2020 (the fiftieth anniversary), stunning news continues to break across the globe due to the coronavirus. Shining through the fog of worry, there have been surprising gains in a period of forced inactivity due to reduced emissions, such as record-breaking solar energy capture in Germany, and cleaner

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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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    Panoramic Panic! A Sticky Situation, Part 1

    • Date: July 29, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: This piece is part one in a series of posts about Smithsonian Institution Archives’ (SIA) paper conservator and interns working on stabilizing a 1921 panoramic photo of air mail pilots and crews that is being moved to the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. You can see Part II here. In addition to being the Paper Conservator for the Smithsonian

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  23. 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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