Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
Happy National Chemistry Week!
- Date: October 25, 2012
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: Here are some of the scientific discoveries made while conserving Joseph Henry’s Record of Experiments Book I on electromagnetism.
Is that you, John Quincy Adams?
- Date: February 20, 2012
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: In honor of President’s Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives shares letters from President John Quincy Adams from our collections.
Hunting for Watermarks
- Date: November 29, 2012
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: In honor of Dard Hunter’s birthday, here’s a sample of watermarks found on our collection of archival documents.
A Health Resort for Paper
- Date: February 5, 2013
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: Here is an example of humidifying and flattening rolled documents in the conservation lab.
Mystery Diagnosis and the Case of the Unidentified Bird Shadows
- Date: February 4, 2014
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: We need your help idenitifying what happened to these Ridgway bird illustrations that appear to have strange smoke patterns covering the images
Everything you wanted to know about digitizing your photo album, but were afraid to ask!
- Date: December 19, 2013
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: Welcome to Throwback Thursday! This holiday season, I hope to inspire you to take a trip down memory lane to the land of erstwhile and bygone days of the family photo album. What better time to pull these one of a kind treasures off the shelves than during the family festivities! Recently over the Thanksgiving holiday, I rediscovered my own family’s quasi-prehistoric,
To Post-it or Not to Post-it
- Date: September 5, 2013
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: Although fun and easy to use, post-it notes are often harmful to archival records, as seen with the conservation of Cordelia Rose’s recently acquired scroll.