Slovak Legation to Monarch, March 20, 1849. Photo: Courtesy of the Archive of Literature and Art (ATA) of the Slovak National Library

The Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD) in Bratislava, Slovakia. Photo: Barbara Burianova

Instructor Monique Fischer discusses a photograph with course participants. Photo: Sean Charette

A course participant tests surface cleaning techniques on a photograph. Photo: Sean Charette

Teaching Assistant Jana Krizanova demonstrates use of a stereo zoom binocular microscope to course participants. Photo: Dusan Stulik

Instructor Monique Fischer discuses color photographic processes with course participants. Photo: Sean Charette

Instructor Tram Vo discusses identification of photographs with course participants. Photo: Dusan Stulik

Four course participants discuss photographic processes. Photo: Sean Charette

Instructor Art Kaplan and a course participant perform X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of a photograph. Photo: Sean Charette

Group photo of Module 1 participants. Photo: Milan Kvasnica

Course participants identify a photograph from the Slovak National Library (SNL) collection. Photo: Sean Charette

Course participant with newly created Platinum type print. Photo: Art Kaplan

Course participant works to identify a photograph using a portable X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) unit. Photo: Sean Charette

Module 2 course participants. Photo: SNL staff

Instructor Tram Vo works with course participant on a conservation treatment to flatten a photograph. Photo: Sean Charette

Course participant uses microscopic examination to identify a photograph from the SNL collection. Photo: Jana Krizanova

Course participant surveys photographs from the SNL collection. Photo: Jana Krizanova

Course participant rinses a salted paper print during a process recreation session. Photo: Art Kaplan

Course participant surveys photographs from the SNL collection. Photo: Sean Charette

Instructor Jana Krizanova reviews survey forms completed by course participants. Photo: Tram Vo

Course participants discuss film developing techniques. Photo: Art Kaplan

Salted paper prints, created by course participants, are hung to dry. Photo: Sean Charette

Platinum type print created by course participant. Photo: Sean Charette

Fundamentals of the Conservation of Photographs course participants with final certificates. Photo: Dusan Stulik, GCI

Module 3 instructor Bertrand Lavedrine leads an exercise on testing of exhibition and storage materials for photographs. Photo: Art Kaplan, GCI