{"id":1269,"date":"2009-09-09T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2009-09-09T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:36:19","slug":"blue-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/09\/09\/blue-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 9, 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/10\/blog-dscn0967.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/10\/blog-dscn0967.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteer measuring blue corrugated board to make a box\" border=\"0\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1291\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/10\/blog-dscn0992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/10\/blog-dscn0992.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteer with blue boxes completed and one in progress\" border=\"0\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of our volunteers has taken on the project of building custom boxes for objects to be returned to the African American Museum in November. Beth\u00a0has been teaching\u00a0Kallie Holt how to make boxes from the sturdy blue corrugated board we use routinely in the conservation lab. \u00a0In addition to making them easily transportable the boxes will be good for long term storage for these artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>One of the advantages\u00a0of our close communication with the curators is the ability to have us prioritize items. Susan Kuecker of the African American Museum is opening an exhibit in November and sent us a list of objects she needed so we could re-arrange our workflow. These are the objects that Kallie is re-boxing.\u00a0 We hope to have a majority of the items from the African American Museum treated, boxed, and ready to go by December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 9, 2009 One of our volunteers has taken on the project of building custom boxes for objects to be returned to the African American Museum in November. Beth\u00a0has been teaching\u00a0Kallie Holt how to make boxes from the sturdy blue corrugated board we use routinely in the conservation lab. \u00a0In addition to making them<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/09\/09\/blue-boxes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Blue Boxes&#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":[3,5,12,18,19],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269"}],"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=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}