@PhotoCons

Photo conservator. Views are my own. She/her.

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Joined June 2014
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#MerryChristmas2022 🎅🏻🐻
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☃️Who doesn’t want to build a snowman?! But could this photograph taken by Mary Dillwyn c. 1853 be the oldest photo of a #snowman? #PhotoFriday
Photo of snowman taken by Mary Dillwyn

ALT Photo of snowman taken by Mary Dillwyn

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I feel like this holiday season, it's important to remind people of the true meaning of christmas: ghosts terrorizing rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees more
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In the 1960s, holiday cards from politicians became less formal with the introduction of photographs featuring their families, pets and winter landscapes. It was a way for politicians to appear more approachable and human. Learn more, watch the full 📽️ bit.ly/3xGfWNa

Behind the Scenes... Political Greeting Cards

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Ella Ravilious@Ravilious27 Dec 2022
...uncovering the career of the @V_and_A's first female Official Photographer, Isabel Agnes Cowper. Cowper, whose photographic contribution has only recently been discovered, ran the museum’s photographic service from 1868 until she resigned in 1891.
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This morning, we marked the official opening of our Preservation Storage Facility in @ville_gatineau. This state-of-the-art facility is an environmental🍃 marvel, providing a significant increase in safe, long-term storage space for our collection. 📦📚 ow.ly/GZEA50LN4Pg
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As you shop and prepare your #Thanksgiving meals, we'd like you to know a little more about the work behind the ingredients and the people doing that work to put food on our tables. Here's a thread for everyone who wants to thank a farm worker this week. #WeFeedYou
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Sarah Chavez@sarah_calavera6 Nov 2022
This 1909 autograph book was meant to provide the owner with "ghosts" of their friends' signatures- via @AldenLibrary
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Mandy Garratt@cheshlie4 Nov 2022
Replying to @PhotoCons @SciTechPreserv @CAC_ACCR
Ah yes, I know the feeling! We also have cold storage for photographic materials at @HE_Archive - here's me preparing for a session doing a condition survey 🥶🙂
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Ahmed Ali@DrAhmednurAli3 Nov 2022
If you think the cost of paying education workers a decent wage is too high, wait until you see the bill for allowing the quality of our education system to crumble. A nation's future is inextricably linked to the quality of the education system.
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rage! at the archives
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Pariah Carey
@DesmondCole1 Nov 2022
interesting to see Ontario's education minister complain that 80 cents of every dollar spent on education goes to pay and benefits this is also true of policing a full-time OPP officer who finishes training makes $75,000/yr a full-time education worker makes $49,000/yr
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Happy Halloween! 🎃 May your museum collections and wardrobes be free of the dreaded CLOTHES MOTH OF DOOM. 😱 (Is this better or worse than my woolly bear pumpkin from a few years ago?)
Two photos of a carved Halloween pumpkin (or jack-o'-lantern if you will): the left one on daylight and the right one at night, glowing happily in the dark. The pumpkin has a large hole in the front in which a very large clothes moth sits, its legs and antennae made from metal wire lodged in the fleshy rind of the pumpkin. Smaller flying clothes moths are etched into the rest of the pumpkin. It shakes all guardians of museum collections and owners of woolly jumpers to the core and leaves you worrying about your favourite knitwear.

ALT Two photos of a carved Halloween pumpkin (or jack-o'-lantern if you will): the left one on daylight and the right one at night, glowing happily in the dark. The pumpkin has a large hole in the front in which a very large clothes moth sits, its legs and antennae made from metal wire lodged in the fleshy rind of the pumpkin. Smaller flying clothes moths are etched into the rest of the pumpkin. It shakes all guardians of museum collections and owners of woolly jumpers to the core and leaves you worrying about your favourite knitwear.

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I've worked on quite a few of Frank Hurley's amazing paget plates, taken during Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition in 1915, but I think this is one of my favourites. Amazing colour as dusk falls across the Endurance and its crew. It is original colour (not colourised)
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The light in this autochrome is absolutely stunning! This study of three ladies of Lyon picking fruit during the Golden Hour, 112 years ago, was taken by Professor Fernand Arloing around 1910. It looks like a most exquisite painting but is actually a colour photo, not colourised.
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Psst, hey
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gone@ArtMBlake20 Oct 2022
🚨Pay attention! We’ve warned this was coming & now it’s here: “a concerted effort by conservative lobby groups” to elect anti-trans school board trustees. 🚨🏳️‍⚧️
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I lied we're having a ska day not a spa day here's your trumpet
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Photographer Cara Romero takes a visceral approach to representing Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, & lived experiences from a Native American female perspective. Pictured here is her work “TV Indians." [Ayer oversize TR681.I58 R66 2021 no.1] #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Most silent-era film productions have been lost to time & hardly *any* material shot by Black filmmakers pre-1920 has survived. But recently, the earliest known footage produced by a Black film company was found, hiding in plain sight, in our collections. go.loc.gov/VNWH50L1gre
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