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Materials Conservation of Historic Paper Grant Research Report
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On the Couch with Historic New England
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Material, Intent, and the Aesthetics of Conservation
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The Geology of Portland (CT) Brownstone, and Quarry Factors to Consider in Block/Slab Selection for In-Kind Replacement of Portland Brownstone
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Welcome and History of Preservation at Victoria Mansion
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Producer/Process/Production The Sacred Chaos of Preserving the Artist and/or the Art
The Wonderfully Strange Case of Howard Finster and his Paradise Garden
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Conservation of Built Heritage
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Ghosts of Good Times — South Louisiana Dance Halls Past and Present
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How is the Conservation of Outsider/Folk Art Unique? Or is it?
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Bloody Buckets, Twice Drunk Beer, and Loser Gumbo: The Louisiana Dancehall Project
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A Context for Historic Texas Dance Halls: The development of the immigrant social halls in Texas and their place in the history of settlement, music, and culture
Patrick Sparks
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Club Desire: The Downtown Club with the Uptown Ideas
Gail Lazaras
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Money When You Need It: Proven Strategies for Creating a Building Reserves Fund
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Hot Topics: What Dance Hall Owners Need to Know Right Now and Helpful Tools
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National Register Documentation of South Louisiana Dance Halls
Emily Ardoin
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Historic Texas Dance Halls: Their Music and Their Futures
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Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall
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Quadricycle Questions with Mose and Andrew (Podcast 68)
Modern Problems with Early Motoring: The Replica Ford Quadricycle
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Preserving Henry Ford’s Legacy (Podcast 67)
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RE-ORG China International Workshop
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No Thermal Break, No Problem: Upgrading Kahn’s Stainless Steel Windows in the Richards Building
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An Engineer’s Approach to Forecast the Long-Term Effects of Environmental Thermal Cycles on the Aluminum Works in the Artillery Sheds at the Chinati Foundation
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Preserving the Gateway Arch: Evaluating Fire Protection and Life Safety Conditions Using a Performance Based Analysis
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Gateway Arch Stainless Steel Weld and Surface Discoloration Evaluation
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Material Change: Attenuation to Significance
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New Contexts: Preservation Challenges of Modern Era Design
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Separating Baby from Bathwater: Conflict Resolution in Modern Materials, Systems & Form
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Restoration and Replication of Steel Elements at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The Knapp’s Centre: 1930’s Art Moderne Icon Reinvented
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Out of the Ordinary
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Fiber Identification and Analysis for Conservation
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Conservation of a World Wrestling Entertainment Costume (Podcast 58)
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Poles, Posts and Canoes Conference
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What do you do with a broken Orangutan? (Podcast 49)
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Fountain Conservation California Style
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Modernizing Preservation
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ICCROM Heritage Conservation Course in Rome
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Fountain Fundamentals, an Ever Evolving Conservation Collaboration
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Divine Disorder: Folk and Outsider Art
Divine Disorder, Conserving the Chaos: Conference on the Conservation of Folk and Outsider Art
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Historic Uses of Lime Mortar, and Its Continuing Importance Today (Podcast 33)
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Preservation of Ornamental Iron
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Our Rule of Three: Producing a Video on Statue Conservation
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Ornamental Iron Workshop 2011
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2011/02/15
The Philosophy of In-use Musical Instrument Conservation (Podcast 28)
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Cemetery Conservation Techniques: St. Augustine, FL
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Form Concrete, Establishing Common Ground
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Nationwide Cemetery Preservation Summit Poster Abstracts
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The Aftershock of Economics Meets Conservation Online
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Art Conservation and Preservation Workshop at AIC
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‘Make it Better than it Was’: Poor Design and New Problems in Cemetery Restoration
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Dynamics of Participatory Conservation: The Kamehameha I Sculpture Project
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Performance-based Evaluation of Materials & Methods for Monument Conservation
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Resetting a Stone Grave Marker (2007-02)
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Root of the Problem (1998-33)
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Manual on Conservation Methodology for Historic Buildings and Structures: Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (1997-07)
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Glass and Stained Glass Conservation (1998-28)
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Who Wants to Preserve A Cemetery? (Podcast 1)
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New England Cemetery Monument Conservation Workshop
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The Future of Preservation
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New England Cemetery Monument Conservation Workshop: October 7-9, 2008
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Brownstone Symposium: May 13, 2006
Recent Research and Technical Innovations in Brownstone Conservation Symposium
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Conservation and Art Materials Dictionary (2000-07)
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Preservation 101: An Internet Course on Paper Conservation (1999-30)
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Review of the State of the Art of Laser Cleaning in Conservation (1997-01)
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Report for NCPTT on Funding Priorities in Materials Conservation (1996-07)
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