Happy New Year. Just in case my original email got lost in the
pre-holiday shuffle, I wanted to repost the invitation to visit CCAHA during Best, Laura Laura Hortz Stanton Director of Preservation Services Phone: 215-545-0613 Fax: 215-735-9313 Email: lhortzstanton@xxxxxxxxx Sent 12/11/07: On Friday, January 11 at 3 pm, the staff of the Conservation Center for
Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) will be pleased to offer tours of our lab
space to attendees at the ALA Mid-Winter Meeting. We are located at 264 S. 23rd Street (23rd
between Locust and Spruce), which is only a short taxi ride from the Convention
Center. We can also be reached via SEPTA, Philadelphia’s mass
transit system. CCAHA is a non-profit regional conservation laboratory serving other
non-profit cultural, education and research institutions, as well as private
individuals and organizations throughout the United States. Founded in
1977, CCAHA specializes in the treatment of works of art and historic artifacts
on paper, such as prints, maps, posters, historic wallpaper, photographs, rare
books, scrapbooks, and manuscripts, as well as parchment and papyrus.
CCAHA also offers on-site consultation services, educational programs, and
seminars, emergency assistance, and internships and fellowships. If you are able to visit us for a tour please RSVP Kelly Ferguson, at kferguson@xxxxxxxxx
or to me at lhortzstanton@xxxxxxxxx. Kelly
and I can also be reached via phone at 215-545-0613 and would be happy to
provide directions to CCAHA. Safe travels to Philadelphia and I look forward to meeting many of you
at the meeting. |