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Cultural heritage collections typically contain photographs. Join instructor, Stephen Fletcher, Photographic Archivist for UNC’s North Carolina Collection, at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, September 13 to learn how to care for these important visual documents. The production of different technical formats across the 19^th and 20^th 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. 

• Where? Teresa Wood Reading Room, Boyd Library, Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst
• When? Friday, September 13, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
• How much? $50 for NCPC members, $75 for nonmembers includes morning refreshments and lunch.
• Who should attend? Anyone who cares for a collection with photographs.
• Registration: click here
• One scholarship will be available to attend this workshop! See our workshops page for more details.

We have extended the scholarship application deadline for our Paintings Preservation workshop to July 17, 2019.  We have one scholarship available. The scholarship covers registration for the workshop. It does not cover travel, lodging, or other expenses.

Applicants must be employees by or volunteers at a North Carolina institution, with a preservation mission that has little or no funding for professional development, or be a graduate student enrolled in a preservation-related program at a university in N.C. To apply for this scholarship, send an email explaining why attendance is important to you along with a current resume to the NCPC Executive Director. Deadline for scholarship applications is July 17, 2019.