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Conservation Treatment

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Both Collections Care and the Weissman Preservation Center offer conservation treatment for the millions of books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, maps, photographs, and other holdings that Harvard University has amassed for research and teaching since its...

Paper Conservation

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Overview The Weissman Preservation Center offers a spectrum of services for the care of unbound special collections artifacts on paper, parchment, papyrus, and other related support materials; these include but are not limited to manuscript and printed...

Care and Conservation of Manuscripts

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Conference Review Presenter: Alan Puglia Alan Puglia will discuss the papers presented at the 15th “Care and Conservation of Manuscripts” seminar held April 2-4, 2014, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The University of Copenhagen and the Royal Library of Denmark...

Photograph Conservation

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Overview The Weissman Preservation Center offers a range of preservation services for photographic materials — prints, film-based negatives, glass-plate negatives, lantern slides, daguerreotypes and other cased photographs, and photograph albums, among...

Rare Book Conservation

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Overview The Weissman Preservation Center offers conservation services for bound special collections books and manuscripts on paper and parchment. These include both western and Asian style bindings of printed books, illuminated and other manuscripts...

The Art of Comic Book Conservation

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Fans of comic books will go to great lengths to keep their collections in top condition—storing comics in clear plastic or vinyl bags, buying an additional copy of an issue (reading one and leaving the other untouched), even sending away comics to be...

The Art of Comic Book Conservation

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Fans of comic books will go to great lengths to keep their collections in top condition—storing comics in clear plastic or vinyl bags, buying an additional copy of an issue (reading one and leaving the other untouched), even sending away comics to be...

Conserving the Delano Collection of Botanical Watercolors

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Image 1: Special Collections Conservator, Kelli Piotrowski consolidating Baccaurea ramiflora, drawing [149]. This summer, the Weissman Preservation Center celebrated the conclusion of a five-year project to conserve and rehouse all 583 watercolors from...

Gels for Paper Conservation Workshop Review

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Please join us for a Brown Bag Presentation on the workshop Gels for Paper Conservation taught by Anne Maheux and Michelle Brown and co-sponsored by the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Kelli...

Gels for Paper Conservation Workshop Review

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Please join us for a Brown Bag Presentation on the workshop Gels for Paper Conservation taught by Anne Maheux and Michelle Brown and co-sponsored by the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Kelli...

Gels for Paper Conservation Workshop Review

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Please join us for a Brown Bag Presentation on the workshop Gels for Paper Conservation taught by Anne Maheux and Michelle Brown and co-sponsored by the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Kelli...

Conservation of Plastics Professional Workshop Review

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The Conservation of Plastics Professional Workshop held in October 2018 at Pratt Institute is a four day course divided equally between theoretical and practical sessions. Conservation of Plastics enable participants to identify the major families of...