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3: Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 2018-01, Vol.108 (1), p.57-XV [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright American Philosophical Society 2019 ;ISSN: 0065-9746 ;EISSN: 2325-9264

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  • Title:
    3: Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection
  • Author: Wolcott, Renée ; Marsh, Diana E
  • Subjects: 20th century ; American Revolution ; Deacidification ; Historic artifacts ; Industrial Revolution ; Library collections ; Lignin ; Museum exhibits ; Museums
  • Is Part Of: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 2018-01, Vol.108 (1), p.57-XV
  • Description: Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection contained forty-three items from the Peale collections of the APS Library, fourteen of which received conservation treatment. Because the lighting in the lobby exhibit cases is brighter and less controlled than the state-of-the-art LED lighting in the APS Museum, several light-sensitive artifacts (including faded photographs and manuscripts written in unstable iron gall ink) were replaced with facsimiles. In 1864, Nathan's son George Escol went on to invent a steam-driven machine that made paper from grass and reeds. Since the Industrial Revolution, most American paper has been made from chemically treated wood. Because the outer folios were adhered to one another in the gutter, often obscuring areas of manuscript, she left them attached to avoid disturbing the text. When all the leaves had been mended and hinged, Wolcott reassembled the sections, humidified them in a steam chamber for 45 minutes, and flattened them between sheets of absorbent cotton blotter. Because leaves were missing from both ends of the book block, Wolcott created new flyleaves from handmade Western paper.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0065-9746
    EISSN: 2325-9264
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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