Becky Fifield
Railroad Dreams: Danbury Railway Museum
If you mourn the destruction of the late, great Pennsylvania Station in NYC, you’ll find this glass heralding the coming of the new...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 30, 2015
- 2 min
Samuel Adams’s Mother Was a Fifield
RL Fifield vacuuming samplers with a dental vacuum in the old Textile Conservation Lab, MFA Boston, 2001. Back in the early aughts, I was...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 5, 2015
- 2 min
Thomas Bewick, Newcastle Wood Engraver (1753-1828)
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Cherryburn, Northumberland, National Trust. NT 530359. In digging through the British...
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Becky Fifield
- Feb 27, 2015
- 2 min
The Pain of Mosul – A Preservation Professional’s Perspective
I have spent my life caring for cultural heritage. As a museum collection manager, my work aims to preserve the physical and intellectual...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 13, 2014
- 1 min
Maryland Material Culture: Bushel Basket
Quiz: What does a Marylander most often associate with a bushel basket? Sure, you can put fruit or vegetables in it (pick-ur-own or...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 20, 2013
- 2 min
A Philadelphia Servant, 1787
The Accident in Lombard Street. Charles Wilson Peale. Winterthur Museum. 1962.88. A pie lays broken in the street, a distraught servant...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 29, 2013
- 2 min
Catering to Clients in an 18th Century Philadelphia Shop
I spent July at a Research Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden. This mainly meant identifying manuscripts and object...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 26, 2013
- 3 min
Museum Monday: Museum-Hater
Do we say “museums are not for everyone” and leave it at that? Or should we have meetings this Monday morning to figure out how our...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 5, 2013
- 1 min
Museum Monday – Chester County Historical Society
Chester County Historical Society. In addition to Swarthmore College’s Friends Historical Library, Wednesday also took me to the Chester...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 1, 2013
- 1 min
Digging in the Archives: Swarthmore College’s Friends Historical Library
My time here at Winterthur is wrapping up. I took yesterday to visit two incredible local institutions, the Friends Historical Library at...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 25, 2013
- 1 min
A Squeal of Delight at the Indianapolis Museum of Art: Miniature Dresses
RL Fifield. I attended the American Institute for Conservation’s Annual Meeting in Indianapolis at the end of May. The opening reception...
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Becky Fifield
- May 30, 2013
- 2 min
What I’ve Been Reading: Buying Into A World of Goods by Ann Smart Martin
Read this great book on 18th century commerce in the backwoods of Virginia. Ann Smart Martin’s Buying into the World of Goods: Early...
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Becky Fifield
- May 21, 2013
- 2 min
Trans. Tuesday: We Survived The Parade of Trains
Just barely. RL Fifield 2013. Dr. V. indulged my whim to visit the assemblage of historic trains at New York’s Grand Central Terminal...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 12, 2013
- 2 min
A Very Scary Moment in a Dark Alley: Trashing a Disney Princess Kitchen
I was scooting through my apartment building’s basement (a wonder in systems and architecture) on my way to pick up a package at the...
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Becky Fifield
- Mar 1, 2013
- 1 min
Haplessly Crafty: Block Printing
A few samples of historically recreated printed textiles using modern materials. The folded squares at the front are handkerchiefs....
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Becky Fifield
- Feb 14, 2013
- 2 min
Curious Objects: Portrait Collages at the National Portrait Gallery
Collage of engraved portraits on exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in “A Will of their Own: Judith Sargent Murray and Women of...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 18, 2013
- 2 min
On the Subject of Duck…
Picture postcard of duck hunting in a sink box at Havre de Grace, Maryland. Duck is tasty. It was popular fare in New York’s...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 21, 2012
- 2 min
Shifting Garment Styles, 1750-1790: What Research and Sketching Have in Common
I roll over this analogy in my mind as I work with my study of 1,000 runaway indentured and enslaved women and their 6,000 garments,...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 17, 2012
- 2 min
Museum Monday: Beethoven’s Birthplace
Has anyone else been outraged by the clips on WNYC when they ask people on the street “Who is Beethoven?” followed by soundbites of...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 8, 2012
- 1 min
A Lesson in Water Conservation – from Martians
The Leaky Faucet features two of the weirder Muppets, The Martians. Their octopus-like lower halves are topped with wide flexible mouths...
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