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The Los Angeles Preservation Network (LAPNet) presents

    PICTURE PERFECT : the Care and Preservation of
    Historic and Black & White Photographic Material

Date:  Tuesday, 7 May 1996

Time:  9:15 am (8:30 Registration) - 4:30 pm

Venue: Friends Pavilion, Henry E. Huntington Library
       San Marino, CA 91108

Parking: No charge for parking.

Registration: $35.00 (includes lunch)

Contacts:

   Information about the program:  Margaret Cribbs  (NASA-JPL)
              818/306-6042      [log in to unmask]

   Registration:  Katharine Donahue (UCLA)
              310/825-6940      [log in to unmask]

Conference Description: An all-day conference regarding the care
  and preservation of historic and black & white photographic material.
  Topics to be discussed include: the identification of photographic
  material (including, but not limited to, daguerreotypes, tintypes,
  albumen prints, and prints made by silver processes); access and
  cataloguing these items in your collection; proper handling and
  storage; and safe methods of exhibiting photographic materials.

Target Audience: Librarians, archivists, and others who are faced with
  handling photographic material in their collections.

Speakers: David Clark (California Historical Society)
          Deborah Derby (Getty Conservation Institute)
          Lisa Forman (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
          Mark Harnly (Getty Museum)
          Linda Mehr (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
          Katherine Ware (Getty Museum)
          Tim Wride (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

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    I would like to participate in LAPNET's Conference on Preservation
                     of Photographic Material

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Please return with a check for $35:00 payable to LAPNet to:

     Katharine Donahue
     UCLA Biomedical Library - History Division
     12-077 CHS, Box 951798
     Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798