Proprietors of the boston athenaeum inc

William Smith Shaw. Peter Oxenbridge Thacher. Joseph Stevens Buckminster. William Tudor. John Thornton Kirkland. Addeddate Bookplateleaf Call number Z JavaScript warning. JavaScript warning JavaScript is turned off in your browser. With no JavaScript support most of the website will not work. Found something wrong or incorrect? If information you see in this page is not valid or you need to update it or have any doubts about it, fill out contact form or use alternative e-mail method: [email protected].

Have not found what you were looking for? Try our search:. The broken spine of this 19th Century volume repaired by hitching together sections with new sewing. Tools used in the Conservation Lab. Browse and Search the Digital Collections. Each year, on site, thecurators assist hundreds of athenaeum members and visiting scholars inresearching the athenaeum's collections. The curatorial staff mountstwo or three exhibitions per year covering a range of historical andcontemporary subjects.

These exhibitions are accompanied by gallerytalks, lectures, and symposia, all of which are open to the public. Eventstake place both in the evening and during the day and include eventsthat are open to the general public as well as events for athenaeummembers. The conservation department includes the chief conservator and the associate conservator, and several interns and fellows.

Athenaeum conservators perform conservation treatments on rare and circulating books, maps, manuscripts, prints, architectural drawings, broadsides, and pamphlets, and follow preventive conservation protocols.

Digital programs - the digital programs department is dedicated to the enhancement of scholarly access to the collections through digitization. The head of digital programs and two interns scan collection materials in the imaging studio and create online records containing digital surrogates with their corresponding metadata. These efforts ensure that athenaeum collections are available freely online to scholars, researchers, students, and to anyone in the world with an internet connection.