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• Miscellaneous publication (Australian Museum) (Museum, 1884-1916, 1884), by Australian Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cigar-box dioramas : a "how-to-do-it" handbook (Arminta Neal, 1958), by Arminta Neal, Doris Samford, and Shirley Parman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Manual for museums (National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior ; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by Ralph H. Lewis and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual for small museums (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927), by Laurence Vail Coleman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Display. (Whitney Publications, 1953), by George Nelson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Method and style in restoration. ([New York, 1961), by Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration and Christian Rohlfing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous publication (Australian Museum) (Museum, 1884-1916, 1884), by Australian Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Des collections ethnographiques. 1, Caractère et essai de classification d'une collection ethnographique ([s.n.], 1845), by M. Jomard and Philipp Franz von Siebold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to museum technique. I. Cataloguing museum specimens. (Ginn & Co., 1907), by L. B. Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cleaning and restoration of museum exhibits. [1st]- report upon investigations conducted at the British Museum (H.M. Stationery Office, 1921), by Great Britain. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Alexander Scott, and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin boards and display (Davis Publications, 1961), by Reino Randall and Edward C. Haines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collecting, preserving, exhibiting : a theory of museum work (Southern Historical Press, 1984), by Gene Waddell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cigar-box dioramas : a "how-to-do-it" handbook (Arminta Neal, 1958), by Arminta Neal, Doris Samford, and Shirley Parman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cigar-Box Dioramas: A "How-to-do-it" Handbook, by Arminta Neal (Gutenberg ebook)

• Introduzione allo studio de' preziosi musei : distribuita in quattro dissertazioni. (Nella stamperia Pagliarini, 1783), by Tommaso Falletti and Marco Pagliarini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inscriptiones, vel, Tituli theatri amplissimi, complectentis rerum universitatis singularas materias et imagines eximias (Ex officina Adami Berg typographi, 1565), by Samuel Quicchelberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tools of the trade : a listing of materials and equipment for managing museum collections. (Curatorial Services Division, Cultural Resources, WASO, National Park Service, 1994), by United States. National Park Service. Curatorial Services Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Museum handbook. Part I, Museum collections. (National Park Service, Dept. of the Interior :, 1991), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conserve o gram. ([National Park Service], 1975), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum handbook. Part II, Museum records. (National Park Service], 1984), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Museum Worlds (partial serial archives)
• Zeitschrift für allgemeine Museologie und verwandte Wissenschaften Nr. 1.-16. (1878) (Wilhelm Baensch Verlagshandlung, 1878), by Johann Georg Theodor Grässe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inert Gases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1998), by Charles Selwitz and Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, ed. by Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Michele R. Derrick, Dusan Stulik, and James M. Landry (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• 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)
• The Nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1986), by Philip R. Ward (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Stone Conservation: An Overview of Current Research (second edition; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010), by Eric Ferguson Doehne and C. A. Price (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Effects of Light on Materials in Collections: Data on Photoflash and Related Sources (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2001), by Terry T. Schaeffer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Metallography and Microstructure of Ancient and Historic Metals (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute and Archetype Books, c1991), by David A. Scott (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The cleaning and restoration of museum exhibits : report upon investigations conducted at the British Museum (H.M.S.O., 1921), by Alexander Scott and Great Britain. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum pests : Dermestid beetles, clothes moth, case making moth : final report (National Park Service, 1985), by United States National Park Service and Dynamac Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• On conservation (American Association of Museums, 1900), by Caroline K. Keck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Konservirung von Alterthumsfunden. (W. Spemann, 1898), by Friedrich Rathgen and Königliche Museen zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conservation project support (Institute of Museum and Library Services), by Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conservation project support, grant application and guidelines 1996 & 1997- (Institute of Museum Services, in the 20th century), by Institute of Museum Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• IMLS conservation assessment program <2003-> (Institute of Museum and Library Services), by Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conserve o gram. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Curatorial Services, 1993), by United States. National Park Service. Curatorial Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• The story of museum groups (American Museum of Natural History, 1926), by Frederic A. Lucas and American Museum of Natural History (page images at HathiTrust)

• Material culture notes; reports from the Ethnographic Laboratory. ([publisher not identified], 1937), by Denver Art Museum. Department of Indian Art and Frederic H. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inert Gases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1998), by Charles Selwitz and Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, ed. by Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Haidy Geismar (HTML and PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Haidy Geismar (HTML and PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums (2001), by Abby Smith Rumsey (HTML at clir.org)

• Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Salem, Massachusetts (Building Conservation Branch, Northeast Cultural Resources Center, Northeast Region, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1998), by Marie L. Carden and Cultural Resources Center (United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office). Building Conservation Branch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tools of the trade : a listing of materials and equipment for managing museum collections. (National Park Service, Museum Management Program, National Center for Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnership Programs, 1996), by National Center for Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnerships (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Listing of materials and equipment for managing museum collections (National Park Service, Park Museum Management Program, Park Cultural Resources Programs :, 2008), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collections stewardship at the Smithsonian : hearing before the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, held in Washington, DC, July 17, 2013. (Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013., 2013), by United States House Committee on House Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Art Museum Images in Scholarly Publishing (c2008), by Nancy Allen (HTML at jobilize.com)

• Handbook of Standards: Documenting African Collections, by International Council of Museums (frame-dependent HTML at icom.org)

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