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- 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.
- 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.
- The Jackson Home—Unpacking a Family's Story - In the Spring of 2023, the contents of an entire house - 9,000 everyday objects, including photographs, documents, books, and household items, were logged, packed, and shipped from Selma, Alabama to Dearborn, Michigan. That house was the Jackson Family Home, which was recently moved to its new permanent home in Greenfield Village – you can find out more about the move here!
- October 07, 2025
- Collections - article
The Jackson Home—Unpacking a Family's Story
In the Spring of 2023, the contents of an entire house - 9,000 everyday objects, including photographs, documents, books, and household items, were logged, packed, and shipped from Selma, Alabama to Dearborn, Michigan. That house was the Jackson Family Home, which was recently moved to its new permanent home in Greenfield Village – you can find out more about the move here!
- 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.