• Opening a Plexiglas Pressure-Mounted Archeological Silk Sandwich 

  Ballard, Mary W.; Gentry, Allison; Dalela, Namrata (2018)
• Producing Posies: A Technical Study of the Frances Jones Poetker Collection of Bouquet Holders at Smithsonian Gardens 

  Grissom, Carol A. (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2024)

  This book focuses on small decorative objects for holding flowers, mainly taken by women to the opera, theater, and balls during the nineteenth century and variously known as posy holders, bouquet holders, flower holders, ...
• Reflecting on the History and Use of Rectangular Obsidian "Mirrors" from Mexico: Reinterpreting Old Museum Collections and Indigenous-Colonial Intersections 

  Martinez, Maria M.; Brandl, Michael; Sharps Noyes, Meredith; Lam, Thomas; Vicenzi, Edward P. (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2022)
• Examination and Treatment Report for a Carpenter & Co. Lock Found at SERC 

  Grissom, Carol A.; Webb, E. Keats; Lam, Thomas (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2021)

  An aged and heavily corroded horizontal iron rim lock for the left side of a door was examined at the request of Anson ("Tuck") Hines, Director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC). The lock was reportedly ...
• Technical Study and Treatment of Paintings by Clementine Hunter 

  Romano, Christine; Lam, Thomas; Tsang, Jia-sun (2021)
• Conserving a Conservator's paintings: Study and Preventive care of Painting by Felrath Hines 

  Romano, Christine; Lam, Thomas; Tsang, Jia-sun (2021)
• A Context-Based Approach to Conserving Photographs On Textiles 

  Parker, Anniack; Brogdon-Grantham, Shannon A.; Doutriaux, Miriam; Kavich, Gwénaëlle M.; Lam, Thomas F. (American Institute for Conservation, Photographic Materials Group, 2019)
• Salting Out: A Simple and Reliable Method to Distinguish Between Common Fluid Preservatives and Estimate Alcohol Concentration 

  Finkelde, Irene; Newsome, G. Asher (2020)

  This paper details the salting-out method, which uses the salts potassium carbonate and sodium chloride to distinguish between the three most commonly used fluid preservatives: ethanol, isopropanol, and formalin. A summary ...
• Gilt Leather Threads in 11th-15th Century Textiles 

  Scibe, Cristina; Solazzo, Caroline; Tosini, Isetta; Lam, Thomas; Vicenzi, Edward; Gonzalez Lopez, Maria Jose (ICOM-CC, 2020)
• Unveil the Gold – Revealing Metal Threads and Decorative Materials of Early Twentieth Century Traditional Chinese Children's Hats 

  Cheung, Angela; Solazzo, Caroline; Tsui, Wai-shan (Taylor and Francis Limited, 2020)
• An Ongoing Mystery: Copper Kettles And Chilkat Blue 

  Ballard, Mary W.; Newsome, G. Asher; Heald, Susan (American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2019)

  While there had been reports by European explorers and traders about the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America Native peoples for centuries, U.S. Navy Lieutenant George T. Emmons, stationed in a frigate in Alaskan waters, ...
• Filtration Efficiencies of Nanoscale Aerosol by Cloth Mask Materials Used to Slow the Spread of SARS CoV-2 

  Zangmeister, Christopher D.; Radney, James G.; Vicenzi, Edward P.; Weaver, Jamie Lynn (American Chemical Society Publications, 2020)

  Filtration efficiency (FE), differential pressure (ΔP), quality factor (QF) and construction parameters were measured for 32 cloth materials (14 cotton, 1 wool, 9 synthetic, 4 synthetic blends, and 4 synthetic/cotton blends) ...
• Collaboration, sustainability, and reconciliation: Teaching cultural heritage preservation and management in Iraq 

  Johnson, Jessica S.; Lione, Brian Michael; Norris, Debra Hess; Price, Lois Olcott; Salih, Shukran; Shemdin, Gouhar; Drayman-Weisser, Terry (International Council of Museums, 2014)
• UV-Induced Visible Luminescence for Conservation Documentation : Luminiscencia Visible Inducida por UV para la Documentacion en Conservacion 

  Webb, E. Keats (Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020)
• Nanoscale structure and compositional analysis of manganese oxide coatings on the Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC 

  Sharps, Meredith C.; Grissom, Carol A.; Vicenzi, Edward P. (2020)
• Trophic ecology of the deep-sea cephalopod assemblage near Bear Seamount in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean 

  Staudinger, Michelle D.; Dimkovikj, Valerie H.; France, Christine A. M.; Jorgensen, Elaina M.; Judkins, Heather; Lindgren, Annie; Shea, Elizabeth K.; Vecchione, Michael (Inter-Research, 2019)
• Interface for Reproducible, Multishot Direct Analysis of Solid-Phase Microextraction Samples 

  Newsome, G. Asher; Kavich, Gwénaëlle; Alvarez-Martin, Alba (American Chemical Society, 2020)
• Proteomics characterization of "organic" metal threads - First results and future directions 

  Solazzo, Caroline; Scibè, Cristina; Eng-Wilmot, Kira (The Research and Technical Studies Group (RATS) and the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), 2019)
• A Biological Disaster to Costume 

  Ballard, Mary; Mina, Laura; Zaret, Cathleen; Grissom, Carol (American Institute for Conservation, 2016)
• Stable isotopes from the African site of Elmina, Ghana and their usefulness in tracking the provenance of enslaved individuals in 18th‐ and 19th‐century North American populations 

  France, Christine A. M.; Owsley, Douglas W.; Bruwelheide, Karin S.; Renschler, Emily S.; Barca, Kathryn G.; DeCorse, Christopher R. (The American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2020)

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