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Cynthia Kapteyn
William S. McBride diary, 1850, March-June, iron gall ink on paper, quarter leather binding with marbled paper covers. Call number: mssHM 16956. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Cynthia Kapteyn
Project Conservator
Cynthia Kapteyn was introduced to conservation through basic book and paper repair courses with a book conservator. She decided to pursue it as a career, graduating in 2018 from Camberwell College of Arts at the University of the Arts London with a master's in the conservation of books and archives. Prior to her position at The Huntington as a project conservator for digitization projects, she completed a fellowship and contract position as an assistant conservator at Iowa State University, and she was an intern at the Victoria and Albert Museum, The London Library, and the Bodleian Library.
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