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    • Ellis Island Postcards

    • Conservation technicians Katelyn Uehling and Tamara Talansky lifting postcards from an unstable board

    • drying rack

    • Documents air drying on the drying racks. 

    • peeling 1

    • Removal of secondary support from manuscript.

    • binding

    •  A repaired volume being sewn over cords.

    • Minah ABC

    • Conservator Minah Song inpainting a leaf from the Christian ABC, Ephrata Cloister/PHMC

    • Family Tree lining

    •  Relining a 73"x60" family tree, 1861, private collection

    • Inpainting media loss

    • Inpainting media loss on an artifact.

    • bing insect houses

    • Conservation Assistant Sue Bing treating Titian Peale insect boxes (1838-1850), Academy of Natural Sciences 

    • microscope

    • Consolidating insecure media under a stereomicroscope on a Georges Braque aquatint, private collection

    • Tape Binding

    •  Sewing sections onto vellum tapes

    • Peeling

    • Conservator Minah Song removing cardboard backing support from a print. 

    • photo 5

    • Mending the edge of a leaf with mulberry paper and wheat starch paste.

    • Tools of the trade

    • Tools of the book trade

    • Inpainting 1

    • Consolidating iron gall ink on a parchment manuscript.

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  • Conserving a well-traveled poster

      • Corine surface cleans Prunier
      • Preparing Prunier for a bath
      • Placing Prunier in the bath
      • Washing Prunier
      • Corine and Jess remove tape from Prunier
      • Corine removes tape from Prunier
      • Removing tape from Prunier
      • Close up of tape removal on Prunier
      • Preparing lining for Prunier
      • Pouring paste onto lining for Prunier
      • Smoothing paste on Prunier lining
      • Lifting Prunier onto lining
      • Prunier on lining table
      • Prunier on lining table 2
      • Flat Prunier on lining table
      • Corine inpainting Prunier 3

    The private collector who brought the poster to CCAHA first saw it hanging in the Samson Street Oyster House in Philadelphia -- but it originally served as an advertisement for Restaurant Prunier, a renowned Parisian seafood restaurant.

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  • "Scenic Route" TV show highlights CCAHA

    The episode that features interviews with CCAHA staff and footage of recent treatments will air Monday, August 16, at 8:00 & 11:00 PM, on Ovation TV.

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  • Treatment Spotlight: Discovering Wind Cave

      • Book Conservator Theresa Cho filling losses

    CCAHA conservators recently completed treatment on a diary documenting the first systematic explorations of Wind Cave (Hot Springs, South Dakota) in 1891.  Click here to read our July FOCUS on the diary and its author and treatment.

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  • Our latest Art-i-facts issue is now available online!

      • Spring 2010 Art-i-facts Cover

    Click here to read about treatment of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School photograph album and about CCAHA's special project to preserve at-risk photographic collections at ten of the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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IMLS American Heritage Grant

  • September 15, 2010

Bank of America is partnering with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to provide grants to raise awareness and fund preservation of treasures held in small museums, libraries, and archives.

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IMLS Conservation Project Support Grant

  • October 1, 2010

Through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Conservation Project Support program, your organization may be able to apply for funding for conservation planning or treatment.

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A Space Odyssey: Storage Strategies for Cultural Collections

  • October 12 – 13, 2010

This comprehensive 2-day conference will address storage planning needs for institutions of all sizes. 

Program participants will hear experts in the field of design, space planning, and environmental control and modification speak about practical methods and applications to improve and

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Digitization for Small Institutions

  • October 27, 2010

New! Every institution struggles with pressure to be visible on the web and to make its collections accessible to wider audiences, but small institutions can face daunting hurdles to implementing

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East Asian Art: Historical Context & Modern Preservation of Paper-based Works

  • November 4 – 5, 2010

Experts in the field of Asian Art uniformly recommend that preservation efforts be grounded in knowledge of the history and traditions embedded within the objects.  This two-day conference will address the distinct historical and aesthetic differences that inform the rich

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