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Re: Preservation Question



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Thomas,
 
I have much luck unfolding and flattening papers using a "home-made" humidification chamber made out a Rubbermaid underbed storage box with a plastic rack in it. 
 
Here's more on humidification of documents from nedcc.
 
http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf64.htm
 
Good luck
 
Joanne Seitter
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Wildenberg, Tom [mailto:twildenberg@JWV.ORG]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:39 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Preservation Question

I have a wonderfully illustrated paper napkin from the 1917 Christmas dinner of Company G, 47 Infantry Division that was found in a scrap book dating from the 1920s.   Here's the problem: the napkin was folded all that time.  It won't lay flat when opened.  What's the best way, if any, to remove or minimize the creases so that it can be placed in a large Mylar sleeve for mechanical protection during storage?

 

Thanking the list an advance.

 

Thomas Wildenberg

Consulting Archivist

National Museum of American Jewish Military History