{"id":1153,"date":"2009-07-13T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2009-07-13T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:29:22","slug":"return-to-sender-reattaching-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/07\/13\/return-to-sender-reattaching-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Sender: Reattaching Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, July 13, 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/07\/blog-img_0458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1152\" style=\"margin-left:;margin-right: 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/07\/blog-img_0458.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"272\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Many of the files from the African American Museum contain various forms of correspondence. There are many postcards and letters with their\u00a0original stamps. When these already fragile envelopes were faced with the flood, the stamps detached\u00a0to end in a pile at the bottom of the file folder. <\/p>\n<p>The second project I gave Kallie was to reunite the stamps with their respective letters and postcards. This\u00a0was a fun project because\u00a0it&#8217;s like putting together a puzzle\u00a0and some of the stamps are pretty interesting. I had her reattach the stamps using wheat starch paste\u00a0applied with a small brush. When the stamp was\u00a0in position, a small square of blotter was placed over it and weighted to absorb any excess moisture and prevent warping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, July 13, 2009 Many of the files from the African American Museum contain various forms of correspondence. There are many postcards and letters with their\u00a0original stamps. When these already fragile envelopes were faced with the flood, the stamps detached\u00a0to end in a pile at the bottom of the file folder. The second project I<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/07\/13\/return-to-sender-reattaching-stamps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Return to Sender: Reattaching Stamps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,12],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}