Description: When disaster strikes your collections, it can be stressful, especially if you’ve neglected that emergency preparedness plan. MayDay is the perfect time each year to revisit preparedness, salvage, and recovery plans, and here are a few keys things to make sure you include to aid in your disaster response.
Description: This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.
Description: In the process of scanning glass plate negatives, how do we determine what each image is when it comes with so little information attached?
Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives manages the cold storage vault at the National Museum of American History where approximately 3 million negatives are stored.