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Our heritage is all that we know of ourselves;what we preserve of it, our only record... Conservation is the means by which we preserve it... It is a commitment not only to the past, but to the future.
Philip Ward: 1986
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
Reference Sites for Conservation
American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC)
1717 K Street NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20006
202-452-9545, 202-452-9328 (fax)
info@aic-faic.org
Web Address: http://aic.stanford.edu/
Selecting a Conservator:
http://aic.stanford.edu/faic/refer.htmlCode of Ethics & Guidelines for Practice:
http://aic.stanford.edu/pubs/ethics.htmlConservators On-Line:
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/
Illustrated Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/tps/tax/rhb/stand.htm
National Park Service - Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
Web Address: http://www.ncptt.nps.gov
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Web Address: http://www.nationaltrust.org
Heritage Preservation
1730 K Street, NW Suite 566
Washington, DC 20006-3836
202-634-1422 / 888-388-6789
Fax 202-634-1435
Web Address: http://www.heritagepreservation.org/
Save Outdoor Sculpture (program of Heritage Preservation):
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/programs/sos/
The Association for Gravestone Studies
30 Elm Street, Worcester, MA 01609
Web Address: http://www.gravestonestudies.org
The Association for Preservation Technology (APT)
Web Address: http://www.apti.org
AATA Online
AATA Online is a comprehensive database of more than 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
Web Address: http://aata.getty.edu/NPS/
English Heritage
At site, search on "cemeteries." They have a booklet online called Paradise Preserved, an introduction to the assessment, evaluation, conservation and management of historic cemeteries. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
*Opening quote: Philip Ward, The Nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time, Marina del Ray, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, 1986. Quote used on the home page of AIC.
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