Heritage At Risk - Grenada Plantation Ledger Found

Grenada Ledger of Accounts of Personal and Estate Expenses 1852 to 1854 found!   Just recently (in 2000) Kenneth E Ingram unearthed and catalogued  some Grenada Ledger of Accounts of Personal and Estate Expenses (1852-54). There is only one volume yet it contains 164 pages. It includes the accounts...

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Preservation: Book Display

Mounts for the Display of BooksFigure 1. Book support made of museum board covered in the same cloth as the case lining, during installationUntil last year, there were basically two types of supports used to display books in the V&A. They had been developed, over a number of years, in order to prevent damage...

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Preservation: Paper Conservation Manual

Paper Conservation ManualContents 1 Introduction 2 Documentation and Treatment 3 Print EditionIntroductionThe Paper Conservation Manual, compiled by members of the AIC Book and Paper Specialty Group. The BPG Paper Manual was begun with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.They now have an online...

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