Working on the Girard Wing requires a certain amount of flexibility and athleticism. Here, Drew Miller squeezes between the casework plexiglass and a row of houses in the Nineteenth-Century American Town to remove the next house in line for cleaning and documentation. In this set, Alexander Girard made use of branches from local plants, including chamisa and sage, that were pruned and scaled to appear as trees in the home yards. These present a unique challenge to clean, as they capture more airborne dust than other objects.