Capstone Research Projects

Conservation

• Edge Reflection Analysis (ERA): A New Technique for Non-contact Texture Analysis of Glossy Surfaces
• Environmental Management Through the Climate Notebook®: A Case Study on the Process of Achieving Climate Control at George Eastman House
• The Effects of Solvents on Silver Dye Bleach Materials
• The Evaluation of the Surface Change of Silver Gelatin Prints Under the Influence of Wetting/Drying
• An Examination of the Short and Long Term Effects of Light Bleaching Silver Gelatin Photographs
• A Guide for Establishing a Photograph Conservation Laboratory
• The Photographic Activity Test: What Is It and How Is It Useful?
• Use of Ultraviolet-induced Visible Flourescence for Examination of Photographs

Connoisseurship

• Care of Rare and Unusual Photographs: A Methodology
• Conservation Issues of Paper Stereo Transparencies
• The Durieu Album: Early Nineteenth-Century French Photographic Techniques and Studies of the Nude
• History and Conservation of Albums and Photographically Illustrated Books
• Investigation of Methods Used to Misrepresent the Conditions and the Age of Photographs
• The Making of a Conservation Database for the Photographs of Hill and Adamson at George Eastman House
• Opalotypes: Their Evolution and Care
• Photograph Conservation and Connoisseurship Online Resource
• A Silver Gelatin DOP Sample Book and a Characteristic Catalogue of the Edward Weston Collection at George Eastman House
• Alfred Stieglitz' Lantern Slides: History, Technique and Technical Analysis

Daguerreotypes

• Conservation of Stereo Daguerreotypes
• Daguerreotypes in Collections: A Basis for a National Conservation and Preservation Plan for a Daguerreotype Heritage
• Investigation into Traditional and Modern Daguerreotype Housing Systems from a Conservation Viewpoint
• Secondary Protective Housing System for Daguerreotypes

Prints and Negatives

• Guide for Identification and Preservation of Negative Collections
• Guide to Fiber Base Gelatin Silver Print Condition and Deterioration
• The History and Conservation of Glass Supported Photographs
• Preserving B&W Negatives from Physical Damage: Handling Methods and Enclosure Design
• Research into the Conservation of Paper Negatives

• Conservation
• Connoisseurship
• Daguerreotypes
• Prints and Negatives