About two decades after the American Civil War, President Grover Cleveland appointed a board to evaluate the state of the country's coastal defenses. That body, led by Cleveland's Secretary of War William Crowninshield Endicott, was known as the Endicott Board, and it eventually issued a report that...
We are so thankful for the support of a dedicated community of people who understand and value our work—people who intuitively grasp how extraordinarily fragile our material heritage is. It’s not just time and chemical deterioration that affects the preservation of cultural heritage; we must also be...
UPDATE: This position has been filled. The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) is seeking a Preservation Specialist for our Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (DHPSNY) program. Under the general guidance of the DHPSNY Program Manager, the DHPSNY...
This week, we were pleased to welcome more than 200 guests into the lab for CCAHA's annual Open House. This is our favorite event of the year, as it allows us to meet one-on-one with friends and colleagues from around the country and show off some of the amazing projects we have been working on...
In April 2018, CCAHA’s Senior Paper Conservator Heather Hendry and Mellon Paper Conservation Fellow Juliet Baines began treatment on two albums containing 170 Chinese export paintings (c. 1650-1750) from the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University. The paintings feature...
This year's CCAHA Open House is just over a month away, and you are invited! Every fall, we welcome friends and colleagues to our Center City lab to mingle and enjoy refreshments before touring our facility and getting an up-close look at some of the remarkable projects we've worked on the previous...
