How about a digital replica?
Jill Koelling
Curator of Visual Materials
Special Collections
Northern Arizona University

While working on the preservation plan for a complex of historic
mining buildings, we have come across a document that must be kept on
the wall (in an uncontrolled space) but is falling apart.  The
document has definite historic value to the site and there may be
only a few still in existence.

If a paper conservator treats the work, they probably will recommend
that it not be displayed in its original location, or will want to
house it in a sealed frame or mylar package.  A frame could be used
but this would not match the traditional method of display, which is
affixed to the wall studs of the building.  They do not want the look
of a modern plastic covering the document.

I'm new to the list, but does anyone have a alternate solution.

Molly Lambert

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