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preservation question



Oh Wise and Wonderful Listserv Colleagues!

I am the Archival Project Assistant at Springfield College in Springfield,
MA.and I need to ask your advice on an item that is part of a collection from
our Class of 1931 memorabilia items. It is a lei [yes, you read correctly] made
of sandalwood. It is still very aromatic and, I am assuming, still holds a lot
of sandalwood oil. It is currently in a metal tin, this is how it was presented
by the owner [a wife of an alum] to the college. We do not intend to get rid of
it but I would like to know the best way you would suggest it can be stored
here. I have contacted NEDCC who referred me to a museum involved in
preservation of various materials, but have not gotten a response from them as
yet.

I am mainly concerned with the sandalwood oils seeping through to other records.
I would continue to house the lei in its current tin but the tin is beginning to
rust.

Any suggestions or referrals you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Please
respond off list.

 Thank you,
 Maggi Gonsalves
 Archival Project Assistant,
 Photographic Digitization Project
 Springfield College
 Springfield, MA 01109

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