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Re: Scrape Book Preservation (?)



Morning, Dick-

I like the "leave town" option. Before you do, though, you might consider
interleaving with MicroChamber paper from Conservation Resources as a
stopgap measure. It has a great capacity for absorbing deterioration
byproducts. Check it out at
http://www.conservationresources.com/index.html  Scrapbooks are the bane of
conservation for the very reasons you mention: a variety of items stuck on
crummy pages with an unknown adhesive. If you want to try lifting an item
to see if the adhesive is water soluble, you might use a rather stiff
methyl cellulose mix- it's not a "wet" as water and it stays where you put it.

Have a good day in the Old Pueblo.
Michael McColgin


At 08:06 PM 8/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
Dear Archipeople,
I have recently acquired what at one time was a scrape book (covers
gone).  The contents (c. 1937-38) are still intact although pages are
wood pulp paper and beginning to break up.  Many items pasted down have
material of interest on side pasted down or partially pasted down.
Don't know yet if this material can be lifted off but will try at some
point.  My question is how do/should I keep the original continuity
flow.  This scrape book documents a service man going off Asia and
events that occurred there.  Would you dismount and re-mount on acid
free material?  Image, dismount and store individually?  Leave town?
Any ideas gratefully accepted.  Dick King, University of Arizona

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