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  1. 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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    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

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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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  9. 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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  11. Anailah Funchess, Camilia Bell and Efeh Ibojie (L-R) discuss the treatment plan for SIA Acc. 16-179, Field notes, Xalapa and Chiapas, Mexico, 2001, with Ben Conklin (R). Image no. SIA-CONS_20220801_20

    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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  13. NPPTL’s promotional graphic of a nurse wearing a respirator next to the words N95 Day 2018.

    Preserve Us From Particulates: Celebrating N95 Day

    • Date: September 4, 2018
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: N95 Day is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to promote the safe and proper use of N95 face respirators.

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  15. Adelia Gates—Flower Painter or Botanical Illustrator?

    • Date: March 31, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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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.

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  19. The original black-paged album, a document box with archival file folders for historic documents and oversize pictures, and the new preservation album, with the photos stabilized with Mylar corners (also, note a piece of thick paper, acrylic square, and the small glass frog paperweight, which were placed on the photograph to keep it in place while the corners were slipped on from the sides).

    Thanks(giving) for the memories—a preservation family project

    • Date: November 24, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: When you’re all gathered together, sometimes there are just too many cooks in the kitchen, or younger siblings underfoot. Not everyone is into football or jigsaw puzzles, so why not gather together a couple of people from separate generations and branches of the family tree and do some photo identification and preservation? Set aside an hour between or after the meal to pull

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  21. 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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  23. 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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