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Last month I described the first step in the conservation journey of our painted lantern slide scenes.

William Deichmann faced a challenge. He sat inside a new state-of-the-art laboratory as a recently hired junior pharmacologist. He had a bottle of a new compound in his hand, a compound that became deadly when used in excess. Deichmann’s challenge was to determine the exact point of excess: the “

As the clock struck midnight on January 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution went into effect. With this amendment, the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages became illegal in the United States.