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- IMLS Update: Analysis and New Tools - Thanks to a partnership with Hitachi High Technologies, for the past few months the conservation team at The Henry Ford has had a Scanning Electron Microscope with an energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy attachment in our lab.
- January 31, 2019
- Collections - article
IMLS Update: Analysis and New Tools
Thanks to a partnership with Hitachi High Technologies, for the past few months the conservation team at The Henry Ford has had a Scanning Electron Microscope with an energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy attachment in our lab.
- Behind the Scenes with IMLS: New Beginnings - The Henry Ford has recently embarked on a project, funded by IMLS, to conserve, catalogue, digitize, and store 900+ electrical artifacts by October 2017.
- May 05, 2016
- Collections - article
Behind the Scenes with IMLS: New Beginnings
The Henry Ford has recently embarked on a project, funded by IMLS, to conserve, catalogue, digitize, and store 900+ electrical artifacts by October 2017.
- Behind the Scenes with IMLS: Looking Back & Moving Forward - Get an update on the first half of our IMLS grant-funded effort to conserve, rehouse, and digitize artifacts from our extensive electrical collections.
- January 12, 2017
- Collections - article
Behind the Scenes with IMLS: Looking Back & Moving Forward
Get an update on the first half of our IMLS grant-funded effort to conserve, rehouse, and digitize artifacts from our extensive electrical collections.
- Behind the Scenes with IMLS: Recent Progress - As our IMLS grant-funded project to conserve electrical artifacts continues, our conservators share an intriguing Eickemeyer Dynamo and discuss how they treat objects with marble bases.
- September 28, 2016
- Collections - article
Behind the Scenes with IMLS: Recent Progress
As our IMLS grant-funded project to conserve electrical artifacts continues, our conservators share an intriguing Eickemeyer Dynamo and discuss how they treat objects with marble bases.
- Behind the Scenes with IMLS: “Extra Large” Objects - Learn about our IMLS grant work on "extra large" artifacts, including historically significant motors, electrostatic producers, and transformers—and dive deep into the conservation of a Sprague Railway Motor from the 19th century.
- July 31, 2016
- Collections - article
Behind the Scenes with IMLS: “Extra Large” Objects
Learn about our IMLS grant work on "extra large" artifacts, including historically significant motors, electrostatic producers, and transformers—and dive deep into the conservation of a Sprague Railway Motor from the 19th century.
- Tales from the Collections Storage Building: The Giant Teapot - Sometimes, the objects we find in storage surprise us. Learn how we discovered and cared for a giant golden teapot--a trade sign, likely for a tea shop or coffee house.
- July 31, 2020
- Collections - article
Tales from the Collections Storage Building: The Giant Teapot
Sometimes, the objects we find in storage surprise us. Learn how we discovered and cared for a giant golden teapot--a trade sign, likely for a tea shop or coffee house.