{"id":415,"date":"2009-01-21T23:28:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T04:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=415"},"modified":"2009-01-21T23:28:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T04:28:54","slug":"more-civil-war-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/01\/21\/more-civil-war-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"More Civil War Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, January 21, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Here is another Civil War letter similar to the one posted below, only here\u00a0the additional challenges\u00a0were that the letter required some flattening of the wrinkles and folds before mending and the repair tissue had to be tinted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-416\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9884.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9884.jpg 311w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9884-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This letter was pressed overnight between moistened blotter paper to flatten it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-417\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9927.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9927.jpg 316w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9927-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then the Walters repair tissue\u00a0was tinted to match the original.\u00a0 The\u00a0tissue was brushed with a thin wash of acrylic paint and allowed to dry overnight on polyester sheet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-418\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the tissue dries, mending proceeds as before.<\/p>\n<p>To see a scan of the completed work in our digital collection, click here:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #810081\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/cwd,5138\">http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/cwd,5138<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm4\/document.php?CISOROOT=\/cwd&amp;CISOPTR=5169&amp;REC=19\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Here is another Civil War letter similar to the one posted below, only here\u00a0the additional challenges\u00a0were that the letter required some flattening of the wrinkles and folds before mending and the repair tissue had to be tinted. This letter was pressed overnight between moistened blotter paper to flatten it. Then the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/01\/21\/more-civil-war-letters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;More Civil War Letters&#8221;<\/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\/415"}],"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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}