Despite what preservation specialists have told you, there’s no oil in your fingertips. It’s true. I once visited a forensics lab and a fingerprinting expert told me there are no oil glands on the palm side of our hands. I checked into it and he was right. So after years of telling people they need […]
A Love-Hate Relationship David Fairchild, an American botanist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about mold in his book, The World Was My Garden (1938, p. 55). …after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds […]
Lighting the Rooms Where Your Art and Memorabilia are Displayed How light affects art and artifacts is one of the most difficult preservation concepts to grasp. As a result, a lot of misconceptions about how to avoid light damage have arisen. In this post, I hope to simplify information about light damage and how to […]
History documents the world we live in, provides truth we can learn from, and allows us to maintain a memory of our culture. Without history, we lose the ability to learn from our past and are more likely to make mistakes in the future. Most good history derives itself from original source documents. As such, […]
