{"id":428,"date":"2014-07-14T14:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tslacconservation.wordpress.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2018-06-29T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T17:02:14","slug":"treating-a-1950s-tslac-scrapbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/conservation\/2014\/07\/14\/treating-a-1950s-tslac-scrapbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating a 1950s TSLAC Scrapbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scrapbooks pose unique challenges in conservation. They often feature a wide variety of rapidly deteriorating modern materials and adhesives. Full treatment is typically difficult to justify among other priorities, so strategies of stabilization, digitization, and reformatting are often pursued.<\/p>\n

TSLAC\u2019s recent conservation work included an exceptional scrapbook, a 1950s-era volume that documents our own agency. This handmade book features correspondence and handouts of the era, along with special pages that highlight institutional departments and functions with photographs and whimsical construction paper cut-outs. The rubber cement used to adhere many of these attachments had failed. Fortunately, these pages had been previously stabilized in archival plastic sleeves to keep the pieces together.<\/p>\n

This scrapbook was an unusually strong candidate for conservation for two reasons. First, a limited number of leaves involving a limited number of materials required intensive intervention. Second, the handmade item\u2019s unique documentation of agency operations made it a rare artifact of special value to TSLAC.<\/p>\n

During treatment, detached photographs and paper cut-outs were re-adhered with wheat starch paste. Placement was determined according to existing adhesive staining. Reconstructed pages were returned to their sleeves, and the full binding was housed in a new, oversize phase box for flat storage. Before and after photos offer a window into 1950s TSLAC operations and period design aesthetics.<\/p>\n

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Before: Legislative Reference<\/p><\/div>\n

\"After:<\/a>

After: Legislative Reference<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Before:<\/a>

Before: Reading Room<\/p><\/div>\n

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After: Reading Room<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Before:<\/a>

Before: Archives<\/p><\/div>\n

\"After:<\/a>

After: Archives (note “Repair and Restoration,” lower right)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Before:<\/a>

Before: Processing<\/p><\/div>\n

\"After:<\/a>

After: Processing<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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