Conservation

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Renée Wolcott
Header Image: 2023 Willman Spawn Conservation Intern Charlotte “Charly” Starnes puts the finishing touches on her treatment of a 1549 French copy of Aphorismi Hippocratis...
Renée Wolcott
In 2021, the APS Library & Museum’s Dr. Franklin: Citizen Scientist exhibition featured a copy of the 1737 Poor Richard’s Almanac open to page 4...
Anne Downey
It’s not very often that we think about making repairs designed to fail. But that’s exactly what I’m striving toward while working on multiple materials...
Renée Wolcott
Two previous blog posts by Anisha Gupta and myself shared the problems with iron gall ink, which was used for almost all the manuscripts in...
Renée Wolcott
In my first post about Petrus Ramus’s 1636 Via Regia ad Geometriam—a geometry textbook with warped, broken wooden boards and mold-eaten leaves—I described the innovative...
Anne Downey
Header image: East Front Street, Nome Alaska, April 1909 Three photo albums recently came to the conservation lab, courtesy of two donors to the Society...
Renée Wolcott
When I first saw Petrus Ramus’s 1636 Via Regia ad Geometriam—its thin wooden boards warped and broken, its mold-eaten leaves as soft, pulpy, and ragged...
American Philosophical Society
By Verónica Ivette Mercado Oliveras, Willman Spawn Conservation Intern Verónica Mercado Oliveras, a Mellon Library and Archives Conservation Education Fellow in the Winterthur/University of Delaware...