The Morgan Library & Museum is a dynamic museum and research library with extraordinary collections of drawings, prints, photographs, illuminated manuscripts, printed books, bookbindings, and literary, historical, and music manuscripts. Originating from the private library of John Pierpont Morgan, a renowned financier, collector, and cultural benefactor, it transitioned into a public institution in 1924. The Thaw Conservation Center (TCC) at the Morgan is dedicated to the preservation, examination, analysis, and accessibility of the Morgan’s collections. The Thaw Center is a major resource in New York City for the conservation and technical study of manuscripts, bookbindings, drawings, and prints. The Thaw Center currently includes two book conservators, two paper conservators, and three preparatory.

As a Pine Tree Foundation Fellow in Book Conservation, I participated in all TCC activities, such as conservation treatment, documentation, technical studies and research, exhibition and loan preparation, and environmental monitoring. The projects of progressive complexity developed my decision-making and treatment skills as applied to the preservation, conservation, exhibition, and loan of bound materials. My work was primarily supervised by Frank Trujillo (Drue Heinz Book Conservator) and some by Maria Fredericks (Sherman Fairchild Head of the Thaw Conservation Center).

The Pine Tree Foundation generously funded this two-year fellowship.