Photograph Preservation Workshop

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Cultural heritage collections typically contain photographs. Join instructor, Stephen Fletcher, Photographic Archivist for UNC’s North Carolina Collection, at a workshop on September 9, 2024, to learn how to care for these important visual documents. The production of different technical formats across the 19th and 20th centuries involved varying chemical processes. As they age, those formats require different preservation strategies. This workshop is an introduction to identifying a variety of types of photographs: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, hand-colored silver gelatin prints, contemporary color, and digital photographs. Instruction will also focus on preservation methods and materials for proper handling, exhibition, and storage.

Photograph of Frederick Douglass from the Brady-Handy Collection. Courtesy of Library of Congress. [Formal sitting portrait of African American man dressed in a suit.]

Date and Location

  • What? In-person workshop on photograph preservation
  • Where? High Point Museum, High Point, NC
  • When? Monday, September 9, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  • How much? $60 for NCPC members, $85 for nonmembers,
    $25 for students, includes lunch
  • Who should attend? Anyone who cares for a collection with photographs

Registration information available here.

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