From Inside the Vaults: Temperature and Relative Humidity Monitoring
From Inside the Vaults is a monthly blog that gives insight into best practices for collections stewardship, curation, and archaeological collecting institutions. How Should Archaeological Collections Be Stored? Preventative conservation, as we’ve discussed this year, includes many different tasks that…
From Inside the Vaults: Acquisitions and Cataloging
From Inside the Vaults is a monthly blog that gives insight into best practices for collections stewardship, curation, and archaeological collecting institutions. What is Collections Cataloging? Have you ever wondered what happens when new collections come into the Center? How…
From Inside the Vaults: Emergency Preparedness Planning
From Inside the Vaults is a monthly blog that gives insight into best practices for collections stewardship, curation, and archaeological collecting institutions. Why Is an Emergency Preparedness Plan Needed? This year From Inside the Vaults has given insight into collecting…
Artifact of the Week: Sugar Tongs
These silver plated sugar tongs were manufactured by Ingersoll. Archaeologists recovered them from an excavation of Block 112, a section of Downtown San Diego that housed a working class population during the late Victorian period (c. 1880-1915). This small section…
