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Re: Friday amusement #2



Maybe you can shellac them.

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer wrote:

> As we all know, it is absolutely forbidden to have food in the
> archives--except that I am in the process of mounting an exhibit (open
> today in an "under construction mode," to allow today's graduates and
> their families to enjoy it) whose theme includes military cooking and
> rations. So for the past couple of weeks, I have had in my archives
> some cans of Spam, jars of dried beef, MREs, reproduction C, D, and K
> rations, M&Ms, and a case of Hershey chocolate bars!
>
> Now I have to figure out what I do with those items when I take down
> the exhibit--store them in the archives in perpetuity, or not? Several
> of the items I have "loaned" to the exhibit, including some Desert
> Storm era MREs, the Spam and dried beef, etc., so I think after the
> exhibit, I will un-loan them and take them home (the actual donor of
> the MREs said he would be happy to eat the Spam.) I have a feeling I
> can find people around the library to take care of the Hershey bars
> and M&Ms. But I'm not sure about the reproduction rations. I might
> need them for another exhibit sometime. On the other hand, I'm not
> sure I want to keep cute little wrapped packages of graham crackers,
> etc., in the archives storage area. They might attract undesirable
> guests.
>
>
>
> Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
> Special Collections Librarian/Archivist
>
> Culinary Institute of America
> 1946 Campus Drive
> Hyde Park, NY  12538
> (845) 451-1757
> c_crawfo@culinary.edu
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