Lecture on preservation science

The Preservation Directorate of the Library of Congress announces
the 35th lecture in its series on Topics in Preservation Science
(TOPS).

"Recent Research in Daguerreotypes at George Eastman House"
Ralph Wiegandt and Patrick Ravines
The West Dining Room, Madison Building 6th floor
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington DC 20540

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008
2-3:30 pm

Mr. Ralph Wiegandt, Assistant Director of Conservation and Mr.
Patrick Ravines, Senior Research Fellow  will present "Recent
Research in Daguerreotypes at George Eastman House."  The 2005
George Eastman House exhibition, "Young America, the Daguerreotypes
of Southworth and Hawes" launched a research collaboration among
Eastman House conservators, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, focused on these fragile early
photographs. The research has encouraged the Mellon Foundation to
support efforts to standardize and share common examination methods,
develop image-based condition databases, and establish a
standardized condition descriptive lexicon for Daguerreotypes.
Additional funding could advance efforts to understand the
deterioration mechanisms of the complex Daguerreotype structure, and
to associate that with macro and micro imaging work. Such efforts
could lead to new treatments for Daguerreotypes, in addition to the
development of an anoxic housing system for significant, at-risk
images.

The Topics in Preservation Science lectures are free and open to the
public. For more information about this series, which is continually
expanded and updated, see

    <URL:http://www.loc.gov/preserv/tops/schedule.html>

Eric Hansen
Chief, Preservation Research and Testing Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4560
202-707-1028
Fax: 202-707-1525


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