Cancellation Policy
Wait List Policy
Past Workshops
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Photograph Preservation Workshop
Cultural heritage collections typically contain photographs. Join instructor, Stephen Fletcher, Photographic Archivist for UNC’s North Carolina Collection, at a workshop on February 6, 2023, to learn how to care for these important visual documents. The production of different technical formats across the nineteenth and twentieth 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.
Date and Location
- What? In-person workshop on photograph preservation
- Where? Meeting Room A, Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill, NC
- When? Monday, February 6, 2023, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m, ET (Eastern)
- How much? $50 for NCPC members, $75 for nonmembers,
$25 for students, includes lunch - Who should attend? Anyone who cares for a collection with photographs
- Register Here
NCPC Cancellation and Refund Policy
All questions regarding registration should be directed to the NCPC Executive Director. All fees listed on the registration form are in US dollars. There is a cancellation fee of 10% of the Registration Fee up to 10 days before the workshop. No refunds are given for cancellations made within the 10 days prior to the workshop. NCPC Member Institutions may substitute a staff member in the event the registrant cannot attend. Please inform NCPC within 24 hours of the workshop if you will be sending a substitute. No other substitutions are permitted without the permission of NCPC. No refunds will be issued for no-shows. In the event that a workshop is canceled due to low attendance, adverse weather, or other causes beyond NCPC’s control, registrants will be notified and may opt to either have their registration fee applied to another class or conference, or have their fees refunded. NCPC accepts no responsibility in such cases beyond the refund of the workshop registration fees.
Workshop Wait List Policy
If a workshop is full, NCPC will maintain a wait list on a first-come first-served basis. You must register within 24 hours of notification to reserve your seat. The wait list will close 48 hours prior to the workshop, however NCPC reserves the right to add registrants within that period. NCPC reserves the right to add additional seats to a workshop at its discretion. In the event additional seats are added to a workshop, the next person on the wait list will be contacted and registrations accepted until the workshop is filled.
About the North Carolina Preservation Consortium
NCPC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of collections in libraries, museums, archives, and historic sites; monuments, memorials, and outdoor art; archaeological sites and collections; historic and cultural architecture; and private collections of family treasures. Learn more about NCPC at www.ncpreservation.org
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Past Workshops
If you are interested in hosting a workshop, please contact NCPC.
- Make Preservation Happen: Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions In partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities. See their grants page here. 8/8/20200
- N.C. Niche Collections: Tattoo Archives, Winston-Salem NC, 7/14/22 This event made possible through a grant from the Friends of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC)
- Preservation Basics for Object Collections, 4/25/2022
- In Safe Hands, 3/14/2022
- Scrapbook Preservation (two-part online webinar), 10/16/20 and 10/23/20
- Hands On Disaster Recovery (Duke Homestead State HIstoric Site, Durham), 4/20/2020 Canceled due to Covid-19
- Digital Preservation Assessment (Durham County Library, Durham), 10/4/2019)
- Photograph Preservation (Boyd Library, Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst), 9/13/2019
- Paintings Conservation (NC Museum of Art, Raleigh), 8/1/2019
- Special Collections Book Preservation (UNC-Wilmington), 3/13/2019
- Intermediate Cemetery Preservation (Mooresville Public Library), 11/1-2/2018
- Basic Book Repair (Eastern Carolina University, Joyner Library), 9/21/2018
- Summer Storage Camp (Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology), 7/30/2018
- Costume Mounts (Raleigh, NC), 5/21/2018
- Historic Buildings Workshop (Wilmington, NC), 4/23/2018
- Disaster Planning, Response and Recovery (National Guard Museum, Raleigh), 11/6-7/2017
- Introduction to the Care of Historic Cemeteries (High Point Museum), 11/3/2017
- Intermediate Book Repair (Z. Smith Reynolds Library), 9/29/2017
- Preservation of Textiles (Page-Walker Arts and History Center), 9/8/2017
- Condition Reporting Workshop (NC Natural and Cultural Resources Western Office), 8/18/2017
- Boxmaking Workshop (Earl Scruggs Center), 7/28/2017
- Preservation of Scrapbooks (High Point Museum), 4/21/2017
- Care of Archaeological Collections (UNC-Chapel Hill), 3/13/2017
- Preserving the Historic Building, 7/20/2016
- Introduction to the Care of Historic Cemeteries, 7/22/2016