WCG Newsletter moving online
WCG’s Fall newsletter (777K PDF file) marks the end of an era. Thanks to the website redesign, news can now easily appear as-it-happens. No need …
WCG Annual Reports, 2011 and earlier
WCG annual reports prior to 2004 are available through the WCG Archives at the Smithsonian Institution. Annual reports between 2004 and 2011 are available online as PDF …
Williston Award winners
Winners of this year’s Williston Awards were announced at the September Intern Meeting. This year, due to the generosity of several sponsors, we were able …
Announcement: Holiday Party and Lecture, Thursday, December 6
Come to WCG’s annual holiday meeting at the Haskell Center of the Folger Shakespeare Library. We’ll have hors d’oeuvres, drinks, merrymaking, and a talk from Greg …
NEH grants for preserving collections in sustainable ways
Guidelines have been posted for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections grants (due Dec. 4). U.S. nonprofit museums, libraries, archives, and educational …
2010 Angels Project Review: National Park Seminary
The Washington Conservation Guild Angels re-housed, documented and archived paper records belonging to the group Save Our Seminary (SOS)! This non-profit organization is a dedicated …
2009 Angels Project Review
The 2009 Angels Day took place at the Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives on Saturday, November 7th. Twenty volunteers both from the Washington Conservation …
2008 Angels Project Review
The 2008 WCG Angels project was held at the Historical Society of Washington (HSW). Twenty WCG members volunteered their time and expertise to rehouse the …
2007 Angels Project Review
The 2007 WCG Angels Project focused on fire damaged materials from the Georgetown branch of the DC public library. The event took place at the …
2006 Angels Project Review
In a massive cleaning and re-storage effort, 20 WCG members and graduate interns worked on the agricultural collections at the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum …
