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  1. The broken joint and damaged headcap needed significant attention before the volume could be scanned safely. Courtesy of William Bennett.

    Minute by Minute: Preparing Board of Regents Records for Digitization

    • Date: September 10, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Take a look behind the scenes at the Archives as conservation staff prepares one of our important collections for digitization.

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  3. Diagram of Solomon Brown photograph housing showing construction process. Image by William Bennett.

    Home Sweet Housing: Creating a Unique Enclosure for a Historic Photograph

    • Date: November 24, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Finding a unique housing solution to preserve a historic photograph, detailing the history of one of the Smithsonian's earliest employees.

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  5. One of the enlargements following treatment and mounting. Photo by Michael Barnes.

    Re-mounting the American Bison

    • Date: February 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the

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  7. Archival notebook in open archival housing.

    A Close-up with Field Book “Specimens”

    • Date: December 26, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: The Smithsonian’s Field Book Project is a continuous fount of work for both our digitization crew here at the Archives and for me as the conservator in charge of the project’s physical needs. Over the past several weeks I have worked on a variety of field books with different structures and treatment requirements, and will share a few of the most common features I’ve seen in

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  9. Camping Out, Smithsonian-Style

    • Date: June 10, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See how Smithsonian scientists have always been willing to do what is needed to further their research—including camping in all conditions!

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    Decoding Taxonomic Mysteries in Secretary Baird’s Correspondence

    • Date: May 17, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: The Archives was recently gifted an 1860 letter from Spencer F. Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian, to George N. Lawrence, fellow naturalist. The donor requested that, along with a digital version, a transcription be provided, which I undertook alongside a simple treatment. The letter was in overall excellent condition: the thin paper exhibited only a pair of small

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  13. Adopt-a-Book save-the-date promo graphic. The background is a painting of purple flowers. The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives logo is on the left. The right includes the text: Save the dates Adopt-a-Book Salons.

    Welcome to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book Program

    • Date: March 10, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: We all have the opportunity to support the Smithsonian—come see how the Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book program offers a chance to do so.

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    The National Park that Never Was

    • Date: August 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: This month marks the centennial of the National Park Service—learn about one that was planned but never built.

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  17. Color image of tall glass covered buildings, making up the Houston skyline, against and almost completely blue sky.

    Conference Round-up: the Archives at AIC Houston

    • Date: June 5, 2018
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: As we teased earlier this spring in our Facebook Live event, last week Senior Conservator Nora Lockshin and I traveled to Houston, Texas, to share our work with conservation colleagues at the 46th annual meeting of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC). Our contributions centered around work with the Field Book Project, as did our Facebook Live.Another successful

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  19. 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 Harper’s Three-for-One Field Book

    • Date: August 24, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Though a large part of our collections are flat—that is, they are unbound materials as opposed to bound, three-dimensional objects—a significant group of our holdings do live in bindings and book structures (some of my previous blog contributions have dealt with books, but none with as great a degree of intervention). Treating a field book became more complicated—and more

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  23. A Conservator Abroad: Paper Conservation in Japan

    • Date: November 16, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Nearly two years ago, I first heard of a course on the conservation of Japanese paper co-organized by ICCROM, the cultural heritage arm of UNESCO, and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (also known in Japanese as “Tobunken”). Over three weeks, the course offered a first-hand look at the traditional Japanese conservation techniques, materials, and

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