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Archives For April 30, 2014

Scrapbook conservation

By mchughck
Posted on 13 May 2014 | 9:29 am — 

This collection includes a large amount of scrapbooks and photo albums created with a wide variety of bindings, papers, and photo types. Some of the albums are in great shape, and others are in need of a lot of TLC.

The first scrapbook I worked with is “Around the World, 1963.” It includes ticket stubs, brochures, and 3×5 photographs chronicling Gertrude and Bokara Legendre’s mother/daughter worldwide excursion in 1963. This album has sustained significant water damage, and almost all of the materials had to be removed from the original binding and placed in chemically inert enclosures. Scroll through the photos for more details!

Original binding

Original binding

 

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Severe water damage. All pages had to be removed from original plastic page covers, and all photos and ephemera were removed and placed in archival enclosures.

 

 

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Side view of album before conservation

 

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All pages had to be kept, because each photo included a handwritten title below it! We matched each photo with its corresponding title before disassembling the album.

 

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Original spine rusting and damage

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The finished product!

 

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This is what the album looks like now! All materials are safely cataloged and will remain preserved for future research.

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