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Willamette Valley Genealogical Society
Mark your calendar, on July 9th I have been asked to talk to the WVGS about “Dating an Old Photo”. A few years ago I spoke on the same subject to this group and we had a bunch of fun. The participants...
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Texas Jack Photo Restoration
Texas Jack was too young to be in the Civil War, but Jeb Stuart made him a courier and scout. After the war the young Virginian moved to Texas to become a cowboy. Later he met and worked with Buffalo...
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Civil War Photo Album (CDV)
This poor album was on its last leg. The board pages were detached and the paper facings were in tatters. Because of the thickness of rehinging the entire album each page had to be disected to remove...
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Pete Seeger’s American Ballads
This simple perfect bound book was brought in by the daughter. Her Dad and her had used this particular book to teach her guitar and just for fun. With hand written chord patterns and extra family...
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Pete Seeger Ballads Complete
From wikipedia: Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual “We Shall Overcome” (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the...
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Tom Glass
Thank you Tom for assisting at last weekend’s “Dating Old Photos” talk given to the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society at the State Library. Attendance was very good and I hope everyone had a...
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Gray’s Memoirs – 1775
Just got this in. Although the book is not considered valuable, it is a wonderful example of the craftsmanship of paper making, printing, bookbinding and many of the auxiliary crafts supporting 18th...
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Happy New Year – Max Marbles/Bookbinder
Click on the image to see a monstrous view of the bindery! Happy New Year to my wonderful clients and to you who I have not yet met. And a big thanks to Ron Cooper for this great shot!
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Spanish-American War Album
During the 1890s South Dakota organized a regiment to go to war. The ephemera and photos of the album do well in showing that experience. I also made an ePub book of the albums scans.
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Tests – Cleaning an old oil painting.
Tested more than a few solvents before cleaning this painting. After all was done it cleaned up nicely. Now it’s drying with a coat of damar varnish.
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Cloth binding disassembled
Hit his old cloth bound book is now ready for rebuilding the spine and rebacking. Not too much page repair and cosmetics will be simple.
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Marriage Certificate Restored
This document was cleaned, flattened, mended, deacidified and scanned. Here is a before of the original and an after of the corrected digital scan. Working at 600 dpi allows you to get down to where...
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1845 Bible Rebound
This is what we call a tightback, the leather was glued directly to the spine. Though a good technique, you can see the vertical lines on the spine where the binding has cracked the spine. The major...
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Slipcase Repair for Daniel Webster
A slipcase for The Devil and Daniel Webster has been worn out. Had to remove the rotted edge board and lift the paper in order to replace with a strong mulberry paper and layer with original paper. In...
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Late 19th century painting with problems
Here’s a fun challenge, I’ll post the after restoration shot soon!
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After the rip is repaired
The rip has been repaired on the back with raw linen and then the front fissure was filled with a special putty and in-painted.
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Marriage Certificate Reunited
After cleaning, flattening, mending, relining and deacidification this marriage certificate is homeward bound.
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Kewpie Doll c. 1912
Kewpie doll with hurt arm and real dirty. Loved the add-on dress. There’s something about porcelain bisque firing, color and surface sheen that makes these so appealing. It a fun time when a client...
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