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Photographic History Collection

The Photographic History Collection (PHC) is part of the Division of Information Technology & Communication. There are approximately 200,000 photographs in various formats representing the work of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

1.1 Billion Objects and Counting: Inside the Effort to Tally Natural History Specimens Around the Globe

This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums Jack Tamisiea A small fraction of the more than 50 million specimens housed in ...
The Daily Princetonian

Touching history in the Princeton University Numismatic Collection

Not many people today can say they have touched a Roman coin from around 100 CE. Reza Ramji ’28, a student from the Classics Department and a coin cataloguer at Princeton University’s Numismatic ...
WOSU Public Media

A better way of preserving history: Ohio History Connection opens new collection facility

Ohio History Connection Curator of Natural History Dave Dyer holds a mastodon tooth he pulled from a shelf in a natural history storage space in OHC's new $22 million Collections Care Facility next to ...
Brandeis University

Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies

In summer 2006, approximately 800 ancient archaeological objects were wrapped, boxed, and gently transferred from the Rose Art Museum to the Classical Artifact Research Collection (CLARC) in the Rabb ...
Los Angeles Times

With their newly extended SoFi Stadium exhibition, the Kinseys aim to change the narrative about Black history

If you spend more than five minutes with Bernard Kinsey, 79, you’re guaranteed to hear this refrain, because he has thousands of stories. For five decades, the gregarious collector and his wife, ...