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Material culture -- Conservation and restoration

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• Material culture
• Conservation and restoration

• The Conservation of Artifacts Made from Plant Materials (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1990), by Mary-Lou E. Florian, Dale Paul Kronkright, and Ruth E. Norton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, ed. by Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, by Charles Hose and William McDougall (Gutenberg text)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Roberta Gilchrist (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Kathryn M. Rudy (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1987), by Michael Owen Jones
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Pre-Historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages (London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1865), by John Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Antiquités en Fer et en Bronze: Leur Transformation dans la Terre Contenant de l'Acide Carbonique et des Chlorures et Leur Conservation (in French; Copenhagen, Gyldendal, 1917), by Gustav Adolf Theodor Rosenberg, trans. by A. Husson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Conservation of Artifacts Made from Plant Materials (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1990), by Mary-Lou E. Florian, Dale Paul Kronkright, and Ruth E. Norton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization (full serial archives)

• Needles of Stone (electronic edition, 1998), by Tom Graves (illustrated HTML at Glastonbury Archive)

• Aes Signatum (New York: American Numismatic Society, 1919), by T. Louis Comparette (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Tombs and Catacombs of the Appian Way (History of Cremation): A Lecture Delivered in Rome, January 1891, Before a Select Audience of English and American Visitors (Rome: Società Laziale, 1892), by Olinto L. Spadoni
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Die Gottgeweihten Jungfrauen in den Ersten Jahrhunderten der Kirche (in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder, 1892), by Josef Wilpert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mélanges d'Archéologie Byzantine: Monnaies, Médailles, Méreaux, Jetons, Amulettes, Bulles d'or et de Plomb, Poids de Verre et de Bronze, Ivoires, Objets d'Orfèvrerie, Bagues, Religuaires, etc. (first and apparently only series, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1895), by Gustave Léon Schlumberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Gottgeweihten Jungfrauen in den Ersten Jahrhunderten der Kirche (in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder, 1892), by Josef Wilpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (new edition, in 3 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Brand and Henry Ellis, contrib. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976), ed. by Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, and Marian Holland McAllister (HTML at Perseus)
• The Classical Manual: An Epitome of Ancient Geography, Greek and Roman Mythology, Antiquities, and Chronology, Chiefly Intended for the Use of Schools (Philadelphia: H. C. Lea, 1866), by James S. S. Baird
  • multiple formats at archice.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Hand-Book of Classical Geography, Chronology, Mythology, and Antiquities: Prepared for the Use of Schools (Boston: Swan, Brewer and Tileston, 1861), by Thomas Prentiss Allen and William Francis Allen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America: Classical Series (full serial archives)
• Polemonis Periegetae Fragmenta (in Latin and Greek; Leipzig: G. Engelmann, 1838), by Polemon of Athens, ed. by Ludwig Preller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Journeys: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Numa Lane (2002), ed. by Cathy Callaway and P. A. Draper (HTML at stoa.org)
• Commemorative Studies in Honor of Theodore Leslie Shear (Hesperia supplement #8; originally published 1949) (PDF with commentary in Greece)
• Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer (in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1890), by Karl Sittl
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Pre- and Proto-Historic Finns, Both Eastern and Western, With the Magic Songs of the West Finns (2 volumes; London: David Nutt, 1898), by John Abercromby
  • Volume I: illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Volume II: illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com

• The Clyde Mystery: A Study in Forgeries and Folklore (Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons, 1905), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell, by Hans Henning van der Osten (page images at Chicago)

• Excavations of Saqqara (1908-9, 1909-10): The Monastery of Apa Jeremias (Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1912), by James Edward Quibell, contrib. by Herbert Thompson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Zur Vertheidigung der Geschichtlichen Wahrheit und zur Abwehr der Angriffe des Hernn Archivars Pick (in German; Aachen: La Ruelle'sche Accidenz-Druckerei, 1896), by Carl Rhoen
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Excavations in the Medieval Burgh of Aberdeen, 1973-81 (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1982), ed. by J. C. Murray (PDF files at ADS)
• Three Scottish Carmelite Friaries: Excavations at Aberdeen, Linlithgow and Perth, 1980-1986 (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1989), ed. by J. A. Stones (PDF files at ADS)

• The Resurrection of the Oldest Egypt: Being the Story of Abydos as Told by the Discoveries of Dr. Petrie (Laleham near Staines: Beaver Press, 1904), by H. D. Rawnsley
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Archaelogical Investigations on Agattu, Aleutian Islands (University of Michigan Anthropological Papers #18; 1962), by Albert C. Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)

• Commemorative Studies in Honor of Theodore Leslie Shear (Hesperia supplement #8; originally published 1949) (PDF with commentary in Greece)

• An Archaeological Survey of Guntersville Basin on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1951), by William S. Webb and Charles G. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Murphy Hill Site (1Ms300): The Structural Study of a Copena Mound and Comparative Review of the Copena Mortuary Complex (Chattanooga, TN: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1981), by Gloria G. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains (c2011), by Trevor R. Peck (PDF at AU Press)

• Archaeological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #367; 1925), by Waldemar Jochelson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Monica L. Wright (PDF at PSU)
• A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Thomas J. Otten (PDF at Ohio State)

• Material Culture of the Pima, Papago, and Western Apache, With Suggestions for Museum Displays (1934), by Ralph L. Beals (HTML at National Park Service)

• Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Francesca Piqué and Leslie Rainer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Material Culture of the Pima, Papago, and Western Apache, With Suggestions for Museum Displays (1934), by Ralph L. Beals (HTML at National Park Service)

• Samoan Material Culture (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #75; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by Peter Henry Buck (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Material Culture of the Pima, Papago, and Western Apache, With Suggestions for Museum Displays (1934), by Ralph L. Beals (HTML at National Park Service)

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