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In the latest issue of Art-i-facts...
This spring, Art-i-facts looks at the preservation of personal papers that shed light on both family history and broader historical events—including journals from early explorers and the letters of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Archives.
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CCAHA receives an NEA Art Works grant to support a postgraduate fellowship
The grant is one of 788 Art Works grants and part of $24.81 million in funding awarded nationwide. CCAHA's 2012-2013 Advanced Fellow will work with trained conservators to gain hands-on experience in treating a wide range of materials.
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What will you do for Preservation Week and MayDay?
This week, ALA-ALCTS celebrates Preservation Week with nationwide events and activities that highlight what we can do to preserve our personal and shared collections. And on May 1, Heritage Preservation sponsors MayDay to encourage disaster preparedness.
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Conservation treatment of a print yields one very unexpected finding
With science backing them up, conservators rarely encounter an unknown variable during treatment—but one CCAHA conservator recently uncovered a surprise when she removed the lining paper from a print brought in by a private client.
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Digital restoration brings a rare photograph back to life
Photograph Conservator Rachel Wetzel was pleasantly surprised when a fragile American ivorytype, a rare photographic process first produced in the mid-1850s, recently arrived in the lab. Treatment would have had a limited success rate, but digital imaging provided a solution.
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Environmental Management: Stewardship & Sustainability (Portland, OR)
This one-day program will explore new approaches to controlling environmental conditions in cultural institutions. Leading experts in the field will present physically and financially feasible environmental control strategies to help institutions preserve collections materials for the long term.
Identification of 19th- & 20th-Century Photographic Processes (Philadelphia, PA)
This workshop is designed to help attendees identify the various photographic processes found in many collections. It will cover major photographic processes from the daguerreotype to the digital print, examining the layer structure, image material, and deterioration characteristics of each.
GHHN/NYSCA Conservation Treatment Grant Program
The Conservation Treatment Grant Program, administered by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network, in association with the New York State Council on the Arts, provides support for conservation treatment of objects in collections of museums and historical/cultural organizations in New York.
Statewide Meeting of Pennsylvania Alliance for Response (Harrisburg, PA)
Heritage Preservation's Alliance for Response is a national program that connects cultural heritage and emergency response communities before disasters happen. This meeting of Pennsylvania's regional Alliance for Response networks is free and open to anyone wishing to attend.
NHPRC Digitizing Historical Records Grant
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) seeks proposals that use cost-effective methods to digitize nationally significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely available online.