Results for "Smithsonian Institution"
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Ask the Smithsonian, Third Time’s the Charm
- Date: October 11, 2012
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Experts from the Smithsonian Institution invite visitors to see how to and care for their own archival collections and treasures.
Ask the Smithsonian, Again!
- Date: October 4, 2011
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
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
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.
Archives Conservation in Haiti, Part 1
- Date: December 13, 2011
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: This is the first of two posts on the Archives' conservators’ work with the Smithsonian’s Haiti Cultural Recovery project, which works to rescue and safeguard objects damaged by the 2010 earthquake.
- Blog Post
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
- Blog Post
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.
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.
- Blog Post
Happy paper anniversary?
- Date: October 7, 2010
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: [caption id="attachment_8465" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Beth Antoine, Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation, conducts research on the letter or copy press books of Secretary Spencer F. Baird, Courtesy of Nora Lockshin."][/caption] One year ago on October 8th, after several years of planning, waiting, and building, the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation
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
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.
Smithson's Draft Will: A Case for Handwriting
- Date: January 23, 2013
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: An examination of handwriting characteristics. Part 1 of a series on the James Smithson Draft Will.