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The Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute's mission is to become the center for specialized technical collection research and conservation care for all Smithsonian museums and collections. To fulfill this mission MCI staff combine their knowledge of materials and the history of technology with state-of-the-art instrumentation and scientific techniques to provide technical research studies and interpretation of art, as well as anthropological, and historical objects.
MCI is the only Smithsonian resource for technical studies and analyses for the majority of Smithsonian collections. Technical studies require the latest instrumentation, analytical expertise, art historical knowledge, and interpretive abilities. MCI has unique capabilities in most of these areas, as is evidenced by requests for consultation not only from within SI, but from outside organizations.
MCI is the only Smithsonian resource for technical studies and analyses for the majority of Smithsonian collections. Technical studies require the latest instrumentation, analytical expertise, art historical knowledge, and interpretive abilities. MCI has unique capabilities in most of these areas, as is evidenced by requests for consultation not only from within SI, but from outside organizations.
Nicole Little, MCI Physical Scientist
Nicole discusses her work as a physical scientist at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute and what makes her job interesting. This video was recorded from home on July 8, 2020.
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Christine France, MCI Physical Scientist
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Christine discusses her work as a Research Physical Scientist at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute and why she loves her work. This video was recorded from home on August 31, 2020.
Brian Lione, MCI International Cultural Heritage Protection Program Manager
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Brian discusses his work at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute as an International Cultural Heritage Protection Program Manager. The video was recorded from home on July 6, 2020.
Katharyn Hanson, MCI Cultural Heritage Preservation Scholar
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Katharyn discusses her work at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute as a Cultural Heritage Preservation Scholar. The video was recorded from home on June 11, 2020.
Tim Cleland, MCI Physical Scientist
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For more information on a recent project determining the species of origin of small tissue samples on a Tlingit ceremonial hat, visit this blog (dpo.si.edu/blog/smithsonian-uses-3d-tech-restore-broken-sacred-object-tlingit-indians) or the technical publication (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/an/c9an01557d).
Shannon Brogdon-Grantham, MCI Photograph and Paper Conservator
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Shannon discusses why she cares so much for her work as a Photograph and Paper Conservator at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute. This video was recorded from home on May 13, 2020.
Preventive Conservation Symposium 2018
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Preventive Conservation Symposium 2018
Furniture Care and Handling (dubbed in Chinese)
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Furniture Care and Handling (dubbed in Chinese)
Rescuing Records
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Rescuing Records: Recognizing the Problems of Preserving Documents in Research Collections
Rescuing Records (dubbed in Chinese)
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Rescuing Records: Recognizing the Problems of Preserving Documents in Research Collections (dubbed in Chinese)
Five Statues form Ain Ghazal, Jordan - No Music
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Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute staff preserve 9000 year old statues unearthed during road construction in Jordan. Extraordinarily rare plaster statues dating from around 6500 B.C. were discovered in 1985 at the Neolithic site of 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan, on the outskirts of the capitol city Amman. Because of the fragility of the lime plaster, the entire contents of the pit containing the ...
Five Statues form Ain Ghazal, Jordan
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Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute staff preserve 9000 year old statues unearthed during road construction in Jordan. Extraordinarily rare plaster statues dating from around 6500 B.C. were discovered in 1985 at the Neolithic site of 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan, on the outskirts of the capitol city Amman. Because of the fragility of the lime plaster, the entire contents of the pit containing the ...
Furniture Care and Maintenance (Chinese subtitles)
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Furniture Care and Maintenance (Chinese subtitles)
Rescuing Records: Recognizing the Problems of Preserving Documents (Chinese Subtitles)
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Rescuing Records: Recognizing the Problems of Preserving Documents (Chinese Subtitles)
Microscopy Sample Preparation Part IV: Polishing
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Microscopy Sample Preparation Part IV: Polishing
Microscopy Sample Preparation Part I: Embedding & Overview of Sample Prep
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Microscopy Sample Preparation Part I: Embedding & Overview of Sample Prep
Microscopy Sample Preparation Part III: Placing Sample Tablets in the Holder
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Microscopy Sample Preparation Part III: Placing Sample Tablets in the Holder
Microscopy Sample Preparation Part II: Mounting the Sample
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Microscopy Sample Preparation Part II: Mounting the Sample
Part 1: Updated Methods for Digitization of Daguerreotypes
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Part 1: Updated Methods for Digitization of Daguerreotypes
Part 2: Updated Methods for Digitization of Daguerreotypes
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Part 2: Updated Methods for Digitization of Daguerreotypes
Part 3: Updated Methods for Digitization of Daguerreotypes
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Part 3: Updated Methods for Digitization of Daguerreotypes
Extended Depth of Field Microscopy (z stack)
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Extended Depth of Field Microscopy (z stack)
Extended Depth of Field Microscopy--African Bead
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Extended Depth of Field Microscopy African Bead
Contemporary Daguerreotype Portrait with Voice Over
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Contemporary Daguerreotype Portrait with Voice Over
Contemporary Daguerreotype of the Capitol
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Contemporary Daguerreotype of the Capitol
right angle lens?
No mercury fumes, not real daguerreotype.
While I knew what Daguerreotype photography was, I did not know or understand the process involved. This was a great showcase of that process. Many thanks. Very well presented.
I watched your Johna documentary...please consider using a 3d camera or their may be another for camer History chanel & the brothers Oak island would know... you have to use at the site... preserve forever....
What video camera did you guys use in 2012?
Wow the video quality is good for a video from 2012
Companion documentation for this video is available at www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/index.html (Furniture Care and Handling).
Sadly the link on 1:30 does not work anymore. the site is still there, but flash isnt used anymore in any modern browser
I find the funniest statement is, "Fixing is simple, using sodium thiosulfate." That was the process/chemistry that alluded chemists for over 100 years. Sure, now that we know the answer, it's all so simple. Lol
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Extraordinary. It's impressive to see the steps involved - one can only imagine the trial and error involved before the process was perfected. Ironically, the era of the daguerreotype lasted barely twenty years before being superceded by more efficient processes. 🐧
Thanks for investigating these techniques and making this video. Do you know of any universities or non-profits which have developed techniques for digitally copying or accurately reproducing daguerreotype images?
Are we seeing a 90 degree lens attachment? 1:30 I'm no Carleton Watkins, so I'm trying to figure out what type of camera can take a photograph of the Capitol without being pointed at it. I'm not asking for a friend - I'm asking for ME! ☺
Daguerreotypes are mirror images so with a mirror one can get a normal image.
@@okaro6595 That I already know. 👍 What I'm seeing, however, is a camera facing right but capturing an image that's 90 degrees to left. It's as if the lens has a periscope lens, enabling the camera to be pointed straight ahead while the lens is pivoted to photograph something to the left. Great for around-the-corner spy work!
I'm thinking he forgot to record the actual exposure so just took this clip real quick as he was leaving to show what it would've looked like.
@@calvinf9218 That's a likely explanation. The aperture of a camera must be pointed towards the subject (in this case, the Capitol), in order for the subject's image to be captured.
Could you have chosen more inappropriate, irritatingly hipster music? 😬
This is great!
moth balls are toxic
The narration was read by a very unprofessional "reader". Why didn´t you put in some money to get an actor or more fluent reader???
Does anyone know if you can still buy unexposed plates? I have a couple of box cameras and want to try shooting with one just for the experience
goal154wd for this process? I’m not certain. One would probably need to have their own copper coated. But I do know that dry plates are still being made. A fella named Jason Lane is coating glass on a small scale.
There was a fella making silver plated copper sheets. It's around 500 bucks for 12 1/6th plates. You're better off sticking to Tintypes
Don't read a presentation.
How do I get into this industry? This is my Dream! I’d love to do this for a living
So damn cool...
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Glad to see that Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's invention is still alive and strong after almost 200 years. Although daguerreotype was extremely popular in America which could explain this yankee doodle music style, a french music from the 19th century would have been more adequate, thanks.
Hardcore 90s techno would have been more appropriate, thanks :D
love this!
Do you evaporate all the gold chloride off with the flame? What is the first sentisation than second. Thanks.
The first sensitization is iodine, then bromine. There's also another round of iodine before loading the plate that they cut off. The gilding solution isn't evaporated all the way off, just brought up to steaming temperature for a few minutes and then washed off
thanks
ambrotypes are on glass. Dags often have a glass cover over the silver plate.
This series is fantastic! I am however curious, for a small institution are there direct benefits to creating a DagHuas enclosure over a standard foam core rig? For standard DSLR imaging and visible light there doesn't really seem to be a noticeable difference. Is it simplythat the DagHuas provides confidence in replicable results?
What is the music in the backround? MCISmithsonian
Brilliant work, so amazing to see today's world photographed in a 19th century style photographic standard, good to see there's still keen photographers out there making daguerrotype and wet plate photos! :D Here's a challenge I suggest to the photographer, make a trichrome colour photo from 3 daguerreotype photos of a subject, each colour filtered red, green and blue, then scan them onto PC and combine the channels in Photoshop which will result in a colour photo, worth trying!
The filters should be Red, Blue, and Green. The primary colors of LIGHT.You just described the secret of TECHNICOLOR.
It is an interesting idea, but it might not work. Daguerreotypes are orthochromatic interms of spectral sensivity. This means that they have a native sensivity from ~350 nm to ~500nm (from UV light to violet/blue light in the visible spectrum). So you will have a nice blue channel image, a very faint green channel image and a blank plate for the red channel. To work you would have to compensate the exposition for the green and red ones in theory..
@@paulosande8037 I now know of a way to create a 3 RGB daguerrotype, seeing B&W is uniform, you can split a colour image to 3 B&W RGB channel images and print them. And then photograph each printed image and then digitally scan the 3 dags and tint them their respective primary colours and add them and you will end up with a colour image, I did that with 1940s orthochromatic film using the mentioned method and it worked well.
One brave soul took one of these cameras into the wild frontier of Indiana in the 1830's. I saw the pic of the Sauk&Fox dude he took. The dude has white horizontal stripes on his stern face.
No offense intended, but the daguerreotype process wasn't made public until 1839, so that "brave soul" must've been on the ball to have brought a camera "the wild frontier of Indiana in the 1830's."
Interesting. I had always thought the Daguerreotype was on glass. It may be that I have a very small negative instead of a Daguerreotype. I am learning as I go.