************************CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT************************** 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to participate in LAPNET's Conference on Preservation of Photographic Material Name_____________________________________________________________________ Institution______________________________________________________________ Address___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Phone________________________ E-mail______________________________________ Box lunch preference: vegetarian_______non-vegetarian________ 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