[PADG:1894] Tour of CCAHA

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The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) invites you to tour the laboratory and see our current projects.

CCAHA is nationally recognized as a premier conservation treatment facility.  At CCAHA?s state-of-the-art conservation laboratory, conservators treat thousands of paper-based artifacts.  There are always exciting projects to see that illustrate the breadth of treatment needs of paper-based collections.

CCAHA staff have worked on several Save America?s Treasures projects including the competition drawings for the Capitol Building of the United States; Dutch Colonial manuscripts from the New York State Archives; Civil War maps for Rutgers University; and rehousing of the Lewis and Clark specimens at the Academy of Natural Sciences.  Other important projects have included treatment of the architectural drawings of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates for a retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; modern non-conformist Russian art for the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University; the original drawing for the 1903 First Flyer, designed by the Wright Brothers, at the Franklin Institute; rare natural history books from the Castle Collection at the Bryn Mawr College Canaday Library; and Egyptian papyrus for the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Time and Location:

Friday, January 24, 2003 from 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
264 South 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA  19103
www.ccaha.org

Please RSVP by Friday, January 17, 2003 by telephone 215/545-0613 or e-mail jrawnsley@xxxxxxxxx