Some of the objects we’ve treated in the conservation lab this summer have been pretty high-profile. In case I haven’t name-dropped Buffalo Bill enough yet, we’ve worked on both his saddle and his travel case. The California Mission saddle is all polished up and heading off on loan soon. And of course there’s the infamous Great Basin Winchester, […]
Our summer at the Center of the West is coming to a close, and we interns are starting to say our goodbyes to Cody one by one. Before we all parted ways, though, we figured we wanted to do something to commemorate our time here together. So we took a field trip to the local tattoo parlor […]
If you are one of the many loyal followers of our conservation blog, you might remember that we’ve been working on two saddles here in the lab this summer. (If you need to refresh your memory, you can check out our notes on this California mission saddle and this saddle that belonged to Buffalo Bill […]
Conservation is a very scientific field; we work in a laboratory for a reason. We make sure to observe proper safety precautions, and our labs are equipped with fume hoods, MSDS sheets, emergency eyewash stations, and protective gloves and eyewear. With a setup as careful as this, you would expect every treatment to involve dangerous […]