{"id":405,"date":"2009-01-15T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-01-15T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T04:18:09","slug":"preparing-civil-war-letter-for-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/01\/15\/preparing-civil-war-letter-for-scanning\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing Civil War Letter for Scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, January 15, 2009<\/p>\n

One of the collections that the department is currently digitizing is a collection of letters and diaries relating to the Civil War.\u00a0 While most are in good condition, a few are so torn that they require considerable mending before they\u00a0can be scanned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For our mending, we use\u00a0Walters repair tissue which we have previously prepared.\u00a0 It is made by brushing adhesive (half paste, half methylcellulose) in a thin layer onto kozo repair tissue\u00a0which is then layed down on a sheet of polyester and allowed to dry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0For mending tears, small strips of the Walters tissue are torn from the sheet using a needle tear or a water brush tear.\u00a0 The strips are positioned over the tear with the dried adhesive side down and reactivated using a moist cotton swab or water brush.\u00a0 They then dry under blotter or Remay and small weights.\u00a0 Infills are treated similarly, with patches adhered to the edges of both sides of the paper loss.<\/p>\n

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To see the finished product, scanned and uploaded into our digital collection click here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/cwd,5134<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, January 15, 2009 One of the collections that the department is currently digitizing is a collection of letters and diaries relating to the Civil War.\u00a0 While most are in good condition, a few are so torn that they require considerable mending before they\u00a0can be scanned.\u00a0 For our mending, we use\u00a0Walters repair tissue which weContinue reading “Preparing Civil War Letter for Scanning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,12,13],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"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\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}