001. The Application of Analytical Techniques in Art Conservation
| Sarah Talcott, second year student at Trinity College majoring in Biochemistry; Henry DePhillips, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Trinity College | PDF | 4.66 MB |
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002. Source Identification of Mesoamerican Obsidian Using X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
| Emily Hamilton, Associate Objects Conservator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dr. Jeffery Ferguson, Research Assistant Professor, University of Missouri | PDF | 3.23 MB |
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003. Cowboy Conservation: Treatment of a Taxidermy Leatherback Turtle in Cordova, Alaska
| Fran Ritchie, Conservation Fellow, National Museum of the American Indian | PDF | 2.78 MB |
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004. The Conservation of a Pair of Sandals from the King Tutankhamen Collection
| Safwat Mohamed Sayed Ali, Conservator, The Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo | PDF | 2.11 MB |
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006. Testing the Sealing of Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) to Prevent Corrosive Emissions
| Rachel Greenberg, Objects Conservator, Monmouth County Archives | PDF | 2.44 MB |
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008. New Light on the Surface of Art Objects in the Conservation Studio with a 3D Digital Hirox Microscope Mounted on an XYZ Stand
| Jaap J. Boon, Art Researcher, JAAP Enterprise for Art Scientific Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Emilien Leonardt, Hirox Europe, Limonest, France | PDF | 3.24 MB |
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09. No Plough? No Problem! A Method for Constructing a Low-Budget Bookbinding Plough for Conservators
| Kathy Lechuga, Book Conservator, The Indiana Historical Society | PDF | 1.04 MB |
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011. Microclimatic Monitoring for the Assessment of the Conservation Conditions of the Stucco Statues in the UNESCO Site of the Longobard Temple in Cividale del Friuli
| Adriana Bernardi, Sr Researcher, Francesca Becherini, Researcher, Inst of Atmospheric Sciences & Climate, NRC; Alessandra Quendolo, Associate Professor, DICAM; Maria Di Tuccio, Fellow, Arianna Vivarelli, Fellow, Inst of Atmospheric Sciences & Climate, NRC | PDF | 1.01 MB |
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012. Preventative Conservation and Flood Risk Management: The Microclimatic Monitoring of the New Outfitting in Santa Croce Museum in Florence -- Italy
| Francesca Becherini; Adriana Bernardi; Arianna Vivarelli; Maria Di Tuccio, all Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Italy | PDF | 1.28 MB |
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013. Conservation Treatment of Early Printed Books: Possibilities, Methodologies, and Outcomes
| Jennifer Hunt Johnson, Student, SUNY Buffalo State; Gary Frost, Adj Asst Professor, Conservator Emeritus, University of Iowa Library; Laura Schell, Paper Conservator in Private Practice; Judith C. Walsh, Professor of Paper Conservation, SUNY Buffalo State | PDF | 1.64 MB |
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014. Strategic Manuevers: How the Preservation Lab Helped Move Special Collections Storage at the Public Library of Cincinnati
| Ashleigh Schieszer, Library and Archives Conservator, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; Holly Prochaska, Preservation Librarian, University of Cincinnati Libraries | PDF | 224.23 KB |
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016. Cast Iron, Salt Air, and 140 Years of Exposure: Cannon at Dry Tortugas
| Ronald Harvey, Conservator / Principal, Tuckerbrook Conservation LLC; Nancy Russell, Museum Curator, South Florida Collection Management Center, Everglades National Park | PDF | 2.42 MB |
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018. One Wall, Many Challenges: The Conservation of Late Roman Painted Wall Plaster at Sardis
| Jessica Pace, Project Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum; Eve Mayberger, Student, NYU Conservation Center; Harral DeBauche, Student, NYU Conservation Center | PDF | 4.61 MB |
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019. Is this a Library or a Museum? Preserving Mixed Collections at the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago
| Danielle J. Fraser, Library Conservator, NALIS, Port of Spain, Trinidad | PDF | 1.60 MB |
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022. Conservation Through Conversation: Material and Technique in the Work of Dario Robleto
| Desirae Peters, 4th year graduate student, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Intern, Smithsonian American Art Museum | PDF | 380.09 KB |
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023. TRI-Funori™: A Fixative, Cleaning Agents and Light Adhesive for Objects and Architectural Conservation
| Rod Stewart, President, Historic Plaster Conservation Services, Ontario; Neal Mednick, Communications Director, Historic Plaster Conservation Services; Masumi Suzuki, Conservator, Historic Plaster Conservation Services | PDF | 4.33 MB |
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024. Formation of a Long-Term Preservation Plan for a Computer Program by Siebren Versteeg
| Alexandra Nichols, Fellow, Winterthur/University of Delaware; Nicholas Kaplan, Collection Assistant, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Andrew Doucette, Time Based Media Coordinator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | PDF | 4.58 MB |
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025. Fighting the Illicit Trade in Cultural Heritage: How Conservation Professionals are Helping (Handout)
| Harriet F. “Rae” Beaubien, Research Associate, Smithsonian - Museum Conservation Institute; Jessica S. Johnson, Head of Conservation, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution | PDF | 542.11 KB |
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025. Fighting the Illicit Trade in Cultural Heritage: How Conservation Professionals are Helping
| Harriet F. “Rae” Beaubien, Research Associate, Smithsonian - Museum Conservation Institute; Jessica S. Johnson, Head of Conservation, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution | PDF | 677.85 KB |
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029. The Smithsonian Interview Project: Questions On Technical Standards In The Care Of Time-Based And Digital Art
| Crystal Sanchez, Time-Based Media Art and Digital Art Working Group member and Video and Digital Preservation Specialist, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian | PDF | 620.66 KB |
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030. Worst Case Scenario: Preparing Alberta’s Archives for Future Disasters
| Emily Turgeon-Brunet, Lead Conservator, Archives Society of Alberta; Amanda Oliver, Lead Archivist, Archives Society of Alberta | PDF | 796.65 KB |
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031. Format Migrations at Harvard Library: General Framework and Plan Development
| Joey Heinen, National Digital Stewardship Resident, Harvard Library; Andrea Goethals | PDF | 1.04 MB |
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032. Reproduction Challenges in Federal Style
| Rian Deurenberg-Wilkinson, Conservator, Fallon & Wilkinson, LLC; Randy S. Wilkinson, Principal, Fallon & Wilkinson, LLC | PDF | 1.71 MB |
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033. Conserving and Interpreting Two Bird Pendants from the mid-Chincha Valley, Peru
| Colleen O’Shea, Graduate Intern in Objects and Textile Conservation, Asian Art Museum; Jacob Bongers, Graduate student, UCLA/Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; Henry Tantalean | PDF | 4.74 MB |
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034. Sustainable Energy Reduction from Relaxed Environmental Criteria in Five Canadian Cities
| William P. Lull, President, Garrison/Lull Inc. | PDF | 486.13 KB |
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035. Finding the Point of No Return: The Irreversible Effect of Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure
| Jiuan Jiuan Chen, Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo State; Jennifer McGlinchey Sexton, Conservator of Photographs, Paul Messier LLC; Paul Messier, Founder, Paul Messier LLC; Rebecca Ploeger, Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo State | PDF | 4.70 MB |
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036. Creation of the Mecklenburg Materials Archive at the Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution
| Dr. Dawn V. Rogala, Paintings Conservator, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution; Dr. Gwénaëlle M.C. Kavich, Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution | PDF | 796.22 KB |
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036. Creation of the Mecklenburg Materials Archive at the Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution (Handout)
| Dr. Dawn V. Rogala, Paintings Conservator, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution; Dr. Gwénaëlle M.C. Kavich, Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution | PDF | 281.84 KB |
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038. A Practical and Versatile Microscope Imaging System!
| Victoria Binder, Associate Paper Conservator, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | PDF | 2.59 MB |
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039. Material Range and Treatment Compatibility: Board Edge Consolidation with the Use of Japanese Paper
| Anahit Campbell, Student, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | PDF | 2.57 MB |
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040. Enlightening Approaches to Indo-Persian Carpets
| Raquel Santos, Assistant researcher/PhD student, Freer|Sackler; Dr. Ana Claro, Universidad de Zaragoza; Dr. Blythe McCarthy, Freer|Sackler; Dr. Jessica Hallett, Portuguese Centre for Global History (CHAM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa | PDF | 5.49 MB |
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041. The Syrian Heritage Initiative: Planning for Safeguarding Heritage Sites in Syria
| Kyra Kearcher, Leon Levy Foundation Research Assistant, Ur Digitization Project, Penn Museum; Kurt Prescott; LeeAnn Gordon, Project Manager for Conservation and Heritage Management, Syrian Heritage Initiative, ASOR | PDF | 3.05 MB |
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042. An Interior Conditions Assessment of Mission San Jose de Tumacácori
| Rebecca A. Caroli, Graduate Student, Heritage Conservation, University of Arizona; Alex B. Lim, Architectural Conservator and Exhibit Specialist, National Park Service, Tumacácori National Historic Park | PDF | 5.63 MB |
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043. Analyzing the Photostability of Artist Adhesives Using CIELAB Color Measurements
| Ashleigh N. Ferguson-Schieszer, 2013 Graduate of Buffalo State College; Dr. Aaron N. Shugar, Andrew W. Mellon Professor and Conservation Scientist, Buffalo State College; Judith C. Walsh, Paper Conservation Professor, Buffalo State College | PDF | 990.97 KB |
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044. Egyptian Glass at the Freer Gallery of Art
| Ellen Nigro, National Endowment for the Humanitites Conservation Fellow, Chrysler Museum of Art; Blythe McCarthy, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Scientist, Freer|Sackler; Ellen Chase, Objects Conservator, Freer|Sackler | PDF | 3.09 MB |
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046. Smartphone Colorimeter Technology: Practical Applications for the Conservator
| Kimberly Frost, Conservation Technician, Caryatid Conservation Services, Inc.; Sarah Towers, Conservation Technician, Caryatid Conservation Services, Inc. | JPG | 4.00 MB |
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048. In-situ X-radiography of a Monumental Oil Painting: Deconstructing a Giant
| Keara Teeter, Intern, Villanova; Allison Rabent, Intern, Villanova; Kristin deGhetaldi, Contract Painting Conservator; Anthony Lagalante, Professor of Chemistry, Villanova Univ.; Brad P. Thorstensen, Chemistry Machinist/Instrument Technician, Villanova. | PDF | 1.25 MB |
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051. The Materiality of Painted Documents: Between History and Preservation
| Márcia Almada, Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Escola de Belas Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | PDF | 718.77 KB |
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052. Conservation, Lifting the Veil: To Teach in Order to Conserve
| Alicia Barreto, Anthropologist and Conservator/Paper Restorer, Figari Museum -- Uruguay Department of Education and Culture, Montevideo, Uruguay | PDF | 3.11 MB |
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053. Documentation Systems as Tools for Contemporary Art Conservation: A Conceptual Model Study Case for Performance Art
| Gabriel Bevilacqua, Professor, Information Science Department, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | JPG | 3.68 MB |
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057. A 16th-Century Spanish "Nao" Shipwreck Found on the Quebrado de Fuxa (Pinar del Rio, Cuba): Wood Identification and Analysis
| Raquel Carreras, Graduate in Biology Science, PhD. Forestry Science, National Union of Cuban’s Writers and Artist | JPG | 3.22 MB |
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058. 'We are Well in the Shelter, the 33 of Us’: Preserving a Message of Hope
| María Soledad Correa, Paper Conservator, Centro Nacional de Conservación y Restauración, Santiago, Chile | JPG | 3.48 MB |
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059. New Trends at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires
| Mercedes Isabel de las Carreras, Chief of the Collection Management Department, National Museum of Fine Art in Buenos Aires | JPG | 2.94 MB |
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060. Research and Conservation of the Ruins of the First Mining Camp Built by the Spanish in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
| Santiago Duval, Manager of the Department of Archaeology, Dirección Nacional de Patrimonio Monumental, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | PDF | 2.88 MB |
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063. Conservation of the Enos Nuttall Papers
| David Mohammed, Supervisor, National Library of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica | JPG | 4.52 MB |
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064. APOYOnline Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas: 25 Years Building Communication Bridges in the Americas
| Amparo Rueda Arciniegas, International Consultant and Trainer on Preventative Conservation, Chía, Cundinamarca, Colombia, Beatriz Haspo, Collections Officer, CALM Division, Library of Congress, Escarlet Silva, Member Director, APOYOnline | PDF | 931.20 KB |
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065. The Preventive Conservation as a Tool: Experiences in the Cooperative Interinstitutional Project for Institutions in Rio de Janeiro
| Milagros Vaillant Callol, National Union and Cuban Writers (UNEAC)/Independent Adviser in Conservation of Cultural Heritage | PDF | 1.21 MB |
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068. Expression Imposed or Superposed: Reintegration of Paper-based Artifacts According to the Custodian’s Needs
| Magdalena Grenda, paper conservator, Warsaw Uprising Museum, Warsaw, Poland | PDF | 2.41 MB |
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070. "Ideal” Versus “Possible” in Field of Scientific Investigation Nowadays
| Marcia Rizzo, Professor of Superior Conservation Course / conservator, PUC- SP Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil | PDF | 975.34 KB |
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071. Two Treatments: Too Much Versus Too Little? Brancusi and Man Ray Contrasted
| Alison Norton, Paper Conservator, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden | PDF | 574.45 KB |
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072. Modular Mount for pre-Columbian Tunics
| Robin Hanson, Associate Conservator of Textiles, Cleveland Museum of Art; Philip Brutz, Mountmaker, Cleveland Museum of Art; Carlo Maggiora, Principle, Carlo Maggiora LLC, Museum Mountmakers | PDF | 1.00 MB |
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074. Wynning Wynwood: Preserving Iconic Street Art
| Viviana Dominguez, Art Conservator, Art Conservators Lab LLC, Francesca de Onis-Tomlinson, Television and Documentary Producer, Tomlinson de Onis Production | PDF | 1.25 MB |
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075. SEM vs micro-Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) for examining tool marks on Jade
| Julie Lauffenburger, Walters Art Museum; E. Keats Webb, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute; Paul Messier, Conservator in Private Practice and incoming Head of the Lens Media Lab, IPCH, Yale | PDF | 1.27 MB |
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076. Observations on the Use of OCT to Examine the Varnish Layer of Paintings
| Derek Nankivil, Fitzpatrick Scholar, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University; Adele DeCruz, Departments of Chemistry and Biology, Duke University; Joseph A. Izatt, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University | PDF | 1.29 MB |
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077. Comparison of Klucel G Pre-made Mending Tissue Using Isopropanol and Ethanol and Three Methods of Reactivation
| Erin Kraus, Conservator, Missouri State Archives | PDF | 1.21 MB |
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078. Cyclododecane as Temporary Consolidant for Asbestos-Containing Fill Material in Historic Osteology Specimens
| Rebecca Kaczkowski, Fellow, National Museum of History; Michael Hunt, Industrial Hygienist, OSHEM, Smithsonian; Catharine Hawks, Conservator, Charles Potter, Collection Manager; Kathryn Makos, Industrial Hygienist, National Museum of Natural History | PDF | 2.35 MB |
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079. Combining Indigenous Practices and Modern Technology in the Conservation of Archival Material in Stella Maris College, Chennai: A Case Study
| Gita Balachandran, Archivist, Stella Maris College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | PNG | 15.23 MB |
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080. Conservation of Historical Documents with Silver Supported Chitosan Nanofibers
| Güncem Özgün Eren, Graduate Student, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey; Cansu Noberi; Cengiz Kaya; Figen Kaya | PDF | 1.12 MB |
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082. Analyzing and Retreating Copper Alloy Artifacts from the USS Monitor
| Kathleen M. Sullivan, Conservator, The Mariners’ Museum | PDF | 1.63 MB |
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083. Orange is the New Red – The Repainting of Robert Murray’s Duet (Homage to David Smith)
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084. Active, Supportive, and Flexible: The Evolving Role of Book Conservation in Digitisation Projects
| Flavio Marzo, Conservation Studio Manager, British Library, Qatar Foundation Partnership | PDF | 891.21 KB |
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087. Hand in Hand: Conservation of Latex. Working with contemporary artist Susie MacMurray on flock-lined latex gloves for A Mixture of Frailties Part I
| Martha Singer, Principal, atelier de conservation, llc | PDF | 5.50 MB |
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088. Hand in Hand: Conservation of Latex. Working with contemporary artist Susie MacMurray on flock-lined latex gloves for A Mixture of Frailties Part II
| Jason Church, Materials Conservator, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training; Martha Singer, Principal, atelier de conservation, llc | PDF | 2.06 MB |
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089. Varsho in Dezful: An Ethnographic Report of the Transition of Cultural Material into Cultural Heritage
| Sharareh Samangani; Dean Sully, Lecturer, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London | PDF | 3.62 MB |
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090. Magnets as an Alternative to Velcro
| Gwen Spicer, Textile, Upholstery, and Objects Conservator, Spicer Art Conservation, LLC; Mike Dunphy, Project Manager, SmallCorp | PDF | 101.00 KB |
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092. Using XRF for the Identification of Chrome Tanning in Leather
| Bruno P. Pouliot, Senior Objects Conservator and Affiliate Professor, Winterthur Museum; Dr. Jennifer Mass, Senior Scientist, Winterthur Museum; Lara Kaplan, Objects Conservator in Private Practice | PDF | 1.20 MB |
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093. An Extreme Case of Byne's Efflorescence: A Novel, Two-Pronged Approach to Consolidation
| Bruno Pouliot, Senior Objects Conservator and Affiliate Professor in Art Conservation, Winterthur Museum; Claire Curran, Graduate Fellow in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation | PDF | 1.65 MB |
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