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- Snowshoes: 2024 IMLS Feature - As we come to the end of our 2022-2024 IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) grant project, the Conservation staff are showcasing standout objects recently treated.
- January 09, 2025
- Collections - article
Snowshoes: 2024 IMLS Feature
As we come to the end of our 2022-2024 IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) grant project, the Conservation staff are showcasing standout objects recently treated.
- Metal, Hard Rubber, and Corrosion Products - Where hard rubber and metal touch on historic artifacts, corrosion occurs. Find out how our talented conservation team addresses this issue.
- August 30, 2017
- Collections - article
Metal, Hard Rubber, and Corrosion Products
Where hard rubber and metal touch on historic artifacts, corrosion occurs. Find out how our talented conservation team addresses this issue.
- 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: 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.
- Exposing the Collections Storage Building - As part of a three-year IMLS-funded grant project, we've been transforming our Collections Storage Building (CSB). See the changes for yourself.
- April 02, 2020
- Collections - article
Exposing the Collections Storage Building
As part of a three-year IMLS-funded grant project, we've been transforming our Collections Storage Building (CSB). See the changes for yourself.
- 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: Batteries Included - Learn about our grant-funded work on batteries made by Thomas Edison—including a collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts on some high-tech analysis.
- May 10, 2018
- Collections - article
Behind the Scenes with IMLS: Batteries Included
Learn about our grant-funded work on batteries made by Thomas Edison—including a collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts on some high-tech analysis.
- IMLS Update: Removing Copper Corrosion - Get an update on our IMLS grant-funded work to conserve and digitize our collection. In this installment, we talk about removing copper corrosion from metals.
- July 17, 2015
- Collections - article
IMLS Update: Removing Copper Corrosion
Get an update on our IMLS grant-funded work to conserve and digitize our collection. In this installment, we talk about removing copper corrosion from metals.
- Surprising Stories from IMLS Discoveries - We are digitizing many electrical objects as part of an IMLS grant, but a few artifacts stand out. Learn four stories that involve the people behind the scenes — manufacturers, inventors, etc. — and how the object was used.
- February 16, 2017
- Collections - article
Surprising Stories from IMLS Discoveries
We are digitizing many electrical objects as part of an IMLS grant, but a few artifacts stand out. Learn four stories that involve the people behind the scenes — manufacturers, inventors, etc. — and how the object was used.
- Electrical Connection - We’ve just digitized photographs from our Fort Wayne Electric Works archival collection, related to an Indiana company that manufactured electrical equipment and other items in the late 19th century.
- September 06, 2016
- Collections - article
Electrical Connection
We’ve just digitized photographs from our Fort Wayne Electric Works archival collection, related to an Indiana company that manufactured electrical equipment and other items in the late 19th century.