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Conservation concerns : a guide for collectors and curators
- Title
- Conservation concerns : a guide for collectors and curators / Konstanze Bachmann, editor.
- Publication
- New York : Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution ; Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1992.
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- Description
- ix, 149 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Written in accessible, nontechnical language, this book's twenty-three essays provide invaluable conservation guidelines for a variety of materials and media. Focusing also on proper storage techniques and environmental control, contributors offer information on emergency planning, disaster management, and identifying damages that may require professional treatment.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Handbook
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Guides et manuels.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Principles of storage / Konstanze Bachmann, Rebecca Anne Rushfield -- Emergency planning / Mary W. Ballard -- Control of temperature and humidity in small collections / Ann Brooke Craddock -- Construction materials for storage and exhibition / Ann Brooke Craddock -- Storage of works on paper / Marjorie Shelley -- Warning signs : when works on paper require conservation / Marjorie Shelley -- Storage and care of photographs / Klaus B. Hendriks -- Warning signs : when photographs need conservation / Klaus B. Hendriks -- The preservation and storage of sound recordings / Klaus B. Hendriks -- Painting storage : a basic guideline / Kenneth S. Moser -- When is it time to call a paintings conservator? / Charles von Nostitz -- Storage of historic fabrics and costumes / Christine Giuntini -- Textile conservation / Patsy Orlofsky -- Warning signs : when textiles need conservation / Lucy A. Commoner -- Storage containers for textile collections / Lucy A. Commoner -- Storage of stone, ceramic, glass, and metal / Lynda A. Zycherman.
- The care and conservation of metal artifacts / Elayne Grossbard -- Furniture conservation / Susan Klim -- Upholstery conservation / Kathryn Gill -- Preserving ethnographic objects / Carolyn L. Rose -- Care of folk art : the decorative surface / Valerie Reich Hunt -- Composite objects : materials and storage conditions / Valerie Reich Hunt.
- ISBN
- 1560981741
- 9781560981749
- LCCN
- 91039500
- OCLC
- ocm24870625
- 24870625
- SCSB-1947359
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library