museum review of henry county time capsule documents, new castle, in treatment & exhibition
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Time Capsule documents, New Castle, IN treatment & exhibition at Henry County Historic Society.2 restored documents flattened by water over time, Treated by Jennifer Hein- Textile ConservationTRANSCRIPT
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1907 Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile
Time Capsule Documents
New Castle, IN Marianne Hughes, [email protected]
Gene Ingram,
Henry County Historic
Society M-Sat 1-4:30pm
www.nchcpl.lib.in.us / henrycounty
606 S. 14th St., New
Castle, IN 47362
765-529- 4028
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1907 Time Capsule July 2007
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Scroll & Briscoe before treatment
Briscoe folded
above Scroll above
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Briscoe Parchment
It was flattened after it was humidified.
It unrolled so that it can be read.
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Drying after wet immersion
The parchment scroll
does have bled
signatures. They
cannot be changed
but it was mounted on
a matching acid free
backing to make it
pleasant to view and
stabilized for easy
aging.
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Maxwell-Briscoe before & after
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Scroll after & before
• The directors scroll was stabilized, flattened and
somewhat restored and is more readable text
after it was flattened.
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Other Treated Docs
• We included
individual buffer
mounts for other
semi-treated
objects on the day
of my visit on site.