Bloggin' about blogs • • • • • August 12, 2008

Just some blogs that I am participating in...

GOOD WORDS Blog
http://listofgoodwords.blogspot.com/
Contributing authors are myself and friends/former classmates Mike Ryan and Julianna Lose. In our shared studio at school, amongst the other always tasteful wall decorum, was a list of "good words". Brush up on your vocab or have a funny sounding word to read out loud.

Processing the Chew Family Papers at HSP
http://chewpapers.blogspot.com/
In August 2007, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania received a two year grant for the processing of the Chew Family Papers from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Last week, I began working at the HSP performing conservation on the Chew Family Papers collection. Expect posts from myself to come and in the mean time, read up on the past year with the Chew Family.

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Conservation of the Wedding Album at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania • • • • •

Last September, I began an internship at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Conservation Department. This was my second internship at the HSP and my third internship learning and practicing book and paper conservation. Under the supervision and expert advice of Tara O'Brien, I undertook a colossal project that stretched my 80 hour internship to well over 250 hours!

The project was to recreate an album containing 120 marriage certificates dated from 1640s to 1860s. The original album was bound in 1920 and had been known in the HSP's Library as the "red marriage album". In its new form, the album received ice blue pages, a blue spine and beautiful golden printed covers. In addition to creating this new book to house the certificates - the individual certificates each required attention: dry cleaning, washing, humidifying, mending, and/or encapsulating!

Here is a before shot:


And you want to see the finished product?

See it in person at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Research Library!

And while you are there, check out the display case that I put together with Tara about the project:


(Look at the photo in the center of the display case to see the size of the completed book! I used some mystery muscles lugging the book around the Conservation Lab...)

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