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Re: Rolled maps, etc., revisited



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> When the Society committed itself to an
> architecture collection, the curator planned to
> store everything in large map drawers.
> However,
> one colleciton of 1400 projects (more than one
> set of drawings per project, of course) negated
> that idea and space is now at a premium.
>
> I save flat storage for tracings, fragile
> linens
> that are beginning to fray and tear, and
> fragile
> blueprints that will only be torn more if they
> are rolled and unrolled just one more time.
> This
> means that all else gets rolled.  The rolled
> storage takes different forms depending upon
> the
> condition/medium/age of the drawings.
>
> Linens from 1905 that appear to be in great
> condition are rolled around acid-free tubes
> (from
> Univ. Product) for support.  Otherwise, the
> linens are too heavy and cave-in on themselves.
>
> Then we wrap these rolls with acid-free paper
> and
> tying tape (I try to avoid velcro/adhesives).
>
> Blueprints that cannot be safely unrolled and
> viewed flat are also rolled around these tubes
> and covered until we have time to humidifiy
> them.
> If the blueprints cannot be unrolled at all
> without great loss of pieces of the drawings,
> then we place them into tube boxes until they
> can
> be assessed by a conservator.
>
> For more modern drawings (1950-1980) we use
> tube
> boxes from Hollinger which can be folded and
> unfolded for access.  This cuts down greatly on
> trying to roll a set of drawings so tightly
> that
> they will fit through the end opening.
>
> While rolling is not the ideal situation, I
> feel
> that storing drawings in that manner in our
> climate-controlled conditions is a vast
> improvement over the conditions they would
> experience in rolled storage at the architects'
> off-site storage facilities (i.e. basements,
> breweries, warehouses).
>
> The key is not to roll items tightly and not to
> roll more than 15-20 sheets together.  A recent
> project had me removing drawings from boxes
> that
> had been rolled as tightly as possible in order
> to place as many as possible into 40 boxes.
> They
> were then wrapped in brown paper and identified
> by project name.  Re-rolling some of these
> drawings around the 3" diameter tubes helps
> relax
> them a bit and gets them ready for the humidity
> chamber (which I use on a daily basis!).
>
> Once drawings are humidified, they seem to be
> in
> fair shape.  It just depends, as does all
> archival work.  The 19th century drawings on
> heavy paper do not fair as well as the
> blueprints
> seem to do.  Some come out very well while
> others
> must go into mylar encapsulation for further
> protection.
>
> My two cents-worth for this year!
> Kristina
>
> Kristina Gray Perez
> Assoc. Curator for Architecture Collections
> Missouri Historical Society
>
>
>
>
>
>
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