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Survey for Coll. Managers and Registrars about Developing a Prev. Conservation Major at Winterthur
As collection managers and registrars, we are charged with a wide array of responsibilities in administrating the balance between...

Becky Fifield
Mar 17, 20161 min read
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Crossing Wright’s Ferry on the Susquehanna, 1787
The Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge over the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Wright’s Ferry. U.S. Library of Congress,...

Becky Fifield
Nov 27, 20132 min read
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A Philadelphia Servant, 1787
The Accident in Lombard Street. Charles Wilson Peale. Winterthur Museum. 1962.88. A pie lays broken in the street, a distraught servant...

Becky Fifield
Nov 20, 20132 min read
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Catering to Clients in an 18th Century Philadelphia Shop
I spent July at a Research Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden. This mainly meant identifying manuscripts and object...

Becky Fifield
Aug 29, 20132 min read
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Museum Monday – Working at Winterthur
I’m in residence at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden working on my 18th century runaway project and participating in a preventive...

Becky Fifield
Jul 8, 20131 min read
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Museum Monday: Developing Staff Resources for Managing Collections
My colleague and friend Rob Waller of Protect Heritage Corp. recently sent me a book he collaborated on in 1996, Developing Staff...

Becky Fifield
Jul 1, 20132 min read
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Fun with Fraktur – Women’s Dress in a Drawing from Winterthur Museum
An embroidered apron at LACMA, similar in concept to those depicted in the Winterthur fraktur below. M.2007.211.131 I’m not a...

Becky Fifield
May 31, 20131 min read
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Having Dinner with Robert Jocelyn
I’ll have the Scollop of Oysters, hartychokes, cold lobster, and olive pudding! Winterthur has in their collections the Dinner Book of...

Becky Fifield
Aug 31, 20121 min read
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