Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts

The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded by Marilyn Kemp Weidner in 1977, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and in response to the growing problem of paper deterioration occurring in archives in the Mid-Atlantic region.

[1][2] CCAHA serves cultural, research, and educational institutions, such as museums, libraries, archives, and historical societies, both in its region and across the country.

Treatments include Bruce Springsteen's original lyric notebooks and scrapbooks,[3] Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural drawings, John James Audubon Birds of America prints,[4] Civil War muster rolls, and works by Degas, Matisse, and Picasso.

[5] In addition to treatment services, CCAHA offers nationwide educational programs on disaster planning, collections care, and records and archives management.

[6] These lectures, seminars, and workshops are designed for professional staff who have primary responsibility for the care and handling of artifacts, such as curators, collections managers, archivists, and librarians.

CCAHA’s conservation staff laying out fire, water, and mold damaged items to dry.