Conservation & Preservation

This damaged sheet film positive is an image of U.S. Army Air Force bombers information over German cities, taken by an unidentified photographer.

The stain left by adhesive stuck on a two gelatin silver prints by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy is examined under a microscope in preparation for removal by a staff member in the Kay R. Whitmore conservation Center.

Contract conservator Mirasol Estrada works on repairing a mounting for a photograph by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy.

Mirasol Estrada positions the an Artax X-ray fluorescence (XRF) scanner over a daguerreotype plate as part of a conservation research project. The equipment, on loan to the Museum from the German manufacturer Bruker AXS, reads the composition of an object at the elemental level.