Conservation
Posts related to the Conservation Department
January 29, 2019
Paper conservation treatment can range from cleaning soot off an old map to mending tears in a letter to putting a print in a water...
December 6, 2018
One of the pleasures of re-arranging the oversize collection has been the discovery of drawings given to the APS in the 18th century. One of...
November 1, 2018
When interviewing for the position of Assistant Conservator for Archival Materials, Anisha struck me with her quiet, sure-footed demeanor. I thought at the time, “Wow,...
October 25, 2018
My apologies for the much-delayed fifth installment in the saga of Ben Franklin’s Book of Common Prayer ! In my last post , I discussed...
August 14, 2018
by Layla Huff I attend Morgan State University, where I am a rising sophomore, a member of the Honors College, and a history major. I...
July 17, 2018
I recently had a visit from one of my favorite photograph conservators—Rachel Wetzel of the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts. Rachel’s been working...
June 19, 2018
Readers are often surprised to learn that the horizontal bumps on an old book’s spine have a purpose. Those bumps, known as raised bands, are...
February 2, 2018
For my inaugural blog post as the conservation lab intern, I’m going to explain how we teach paper to swim. You heard me right. Paper,...