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Saving Your Treasures
 

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In attics and garages, underneath beds, piled in corners or just closeted away, our heritage is slowly but surely disintegrating. Based on an NET Television program featuring professionals from the Nebraska State Historical Society's Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center and the State Library Commission, this site provides practical and effective methods to help ensure that artifacts, photographs, and documents will survive into the future.

The television program features a wide variety of segments, including some shot on location around Nebraska, some shot in the highly specialized laboratories at the Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, and some shot at special Heirloom Health Clinics. The entire program, as well as video segments from four major distance learning workshops, is available from this Website.

Sneak Peeks
Preserving Native
American Artifacts
Preserving a
Book from 1730
Preserving a
Beaver Castorium
Issues Facing
Small Museums

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The Harvey Boston
Studio Photo Collection
Deciding
What to Keep
Harry Smith
& his Frontier Rifle

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How to Fold and Roll
Textiles for Storage
How to Polish
Silver Objects
How to Wax
Silver Objects
How to Care
for Your Photos

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Quick Info
What is a conservator?
Learn more about fugitive color
Folding Textiles
Rolling Textiles
More on foxing
How to store weapons
Need conservation materials?
Need archival materials?

Step-by-step tips

Microcrystalline paste wax
Acid-free glassine paper
Questions about nitrate film?
How to care for your photos
Acid-free and lignin-free materials
Learn more about the Heritage Health Index

How to clean and care for your treasures

How do conservators choose adhesives?
Why not try to fix it yourself?

Preservation Pointers
Object Documentation   Protecting Books   Firearms
Paper Objects Objects In Use Metal Toys Still in Use
Working with Big Photo Collections Maintaining Your Collections Broken Ceramics
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Funding for this program was provided in part by a grant from the Partnership for a Nation of Learners program of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Nebraska State Historical Society is partnering with Nebraska Educational Telecommunications and the Nebraska Library Commission to create this television program, Heirloom Health Clinics and a series of distance learning workshops (see links to left).