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Obituary from the Washington Post:
Catherine 'Kitty' Donnelly, National Archives preservationist
Catherine “Kitty” Donnelly, 72, a documents conservator at the National Archives whose work included assessing and helping to preserve the physical condition of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution, died Oct. 12 at a hospice center in Rockville, Md. The cause was lung cancer, said her husband, Harrison Donnelly.
Ms. Donnelly was born Catherine Nicholson in Santa Cruz, Calif., and grew up accompanying her father on his Army assignments. She was a conservator at the National Museum of American History and the National Gallery of Art before joining the National Archives’s preservation department in 1984. She retired in 2013 as deputy chief of conservation.
She was a resident of University Park, Md., where she was active in community affairs. She was a former director of the education program at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington.
Among Ms. Donnelly's published articles are the following:
Issue 106 of The Portolan: "Elizabeth Jane Lenthall Stone: Pioneering American Woman Map Engraver."
"The Stone Engraving: Icon of the Declaration," Prologue 35 no. 3 (2003),
"Finding the Stones," Prologue 44 no. 2 (2012),
"The Declaration of Independence and the Hand of Time," Prologue 48 no. 3 (2016),
"An Invaluable Inscription: Exploring a Declaration of Independence Engraving Signed by Charles Carroll," Maryland History Society News Spring 2014.
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