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This volume provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care including conservation practice, the monitoring of control of light, relative humidity and atmospheric pollution, biological infestation and disaster planning.
Excerpt from New Collection Methods: A Systematic Treatment of the Place of Collections in Marketing, Including Constructive Credits, Psychology of Collections, Procedure and System for Collection Departments, and the Principle of Resale What President Wilson has termed "the conservation of facilities" applies with special emphasis to mercantile credits and collections. To weather the storm of war, business must increase its efficiency and prevent waste. The object of this book is to show the best methods of making collections, and the principles underlying them. The "sales point of view" is the point of view of the modem credit or collection man. He realizes that his function is constructiv...
Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.
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