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Preservation – February 2017
Coffee Coolers, Bums, and Lincolnites: One Union Soldier’s Colorful Memories of the Civil War
In late October, a real treasure from UCLA Library Special Collections arrived in the lab for treatment. It was a gem of a sketchbook, created by a Union Soldier from Illinois named Frederick E. Ransom. Mr.
Keeping Graphic Novels Graphic, by Conservation Assistant Emma Guerard
Graphic Novels are an art form. How does UCLA Library Conservation Center keep them beautiful and still allow people to check them out?
Creating Damage Maps for Complex Projects
The essential first step that every conservator takes when beginning a project is documentation. This essential step is where we record every piece of information that can be gleaned about its creation, history, and current physical state. As conservators it is essential that we understand everything that went into making the object and how its use as a physical object has caused damage before we move forward with treating it.
"Building With Service": The Audiovisual Productions of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company
UCLA Library Preservation, with support from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, is digitizing the audiovisual materials and photographs in the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company records. In 1925, when William J. Nickerson, Jr., George A. Beavers, Jr., and Norman O.
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