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Name: Next time you think about fixing a page rip with a little tape, please. DON’T. ❌ Smithsonian Librar
Uploaded: 2026-06-26T17:11:09.308Z
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Description: Next time you think about fixing a page rip with a little tape, please. DON’T. ❌ Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA) conservator William Bennett stabilizes archival records for future generation

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Next time you think about fixing a page rip with a little tape, please. DON’T. ❌ Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA) conservator William Bennett stabilizes archival records for future generations of researchers. Here, he’s removing crusty, old tape from a field book that belonged to ornithologist Edgar Alexander Mearns, who accompanied former United States President Theodore Roosevelt on his Smithsonian-sponsored expedition to various parts of Africa in 1909-1910.

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