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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.

New Program for Tattoo Enthusiasts!

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Evolution of Tattoo Tools and Pigments with Chuck Eldridge

In the last two hundred years, the tools and pigments that tattooists work with have evolved. Tattooing was once done by hand, and there were only three colors in the tattooist’s palette. Now tattooing is done with an electric machine and color choices appear limitless. This presentation will examine these changes and explain how they have altered the art form. Chuck Eldridge, a retired tattoo artist and co-founder of the Paul Rogers Tattoo Research Center in Winston-Salem, NC (also known as the Tattoo Archive) joins us again for the second installment of the NC Niche Collections series to examine the changes in the tattoo art form.

Image credit: Samuel O’Reilly machine patent 1891. Image courtesy Chuck Eldridge, Tattoo Archive.

Date and Location

  • What? Online webinar
  • Where? Virtual via Zoom
  • When? Thursday, June 13, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
  • How much? Free
  • Link to register: https://bit.ly/NCPC-Tattoo