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Dec 1 2016

Before & After Treatment: Keith’s New Theatre clipping book

Posted byBethany DavisPosted inUncategorized

Before treatment: Crumbling edges, misshapen spine, detached pages, overfilled pages, board detachment front and back.

Misshapen text block
Overfilled scrapbook
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Board detachment

After treatment: Foldered and housed detached pages in a 4-flap wrapper, sewed new endsheets front and back, lined spine and created new flange with extended liner and new endsheet, reattached text-block to case using new flange, mended edges and substrate tears with Japanese tissue and wheat starch paste, humidified and flattened creased clippings.

new endsheets
humidified and flattened creased clippings
Foldered and housed detached pages in a 4-flap wrapper

At a future date, this clipping book will be photographed and uploaded to the Keith/Albee Digital Collection. This project has been funded in major part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.