This question was posted on the archives listserv a few years ago.
Someone recommended chopping all the heads off, and someone else
recommended removing all the matches. No one advised keeping them in
the collection with the matches intact. At the historical society where
I also serve as archivist, we received a matchbook cover collection, but
all the matches were already gone.
Since I don't have a sprinkler in my building, I very reluctantly
chopped off the heads of the WW II era matchbook I just came across,
although all my instincts told me not to do it. If someone wants to do
research someday in the construction of the heads of matches during WW
II, they won't be able to come to me.
Rebecca Fitzgerald, CA
Archivist & Director, Special Collections
Mt. St. Mary's Archives & Dept. of Special Collections
Mt. St. Mary's College & Seminary
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
301/447-5397
301/447-6868 (fax)
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http://www.msmary.edu/studentsandstaff/library/archives.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Kimberly Kenney, Curator [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: matches in the collection
Hello,
What precautions -- if any -- should we take with
matchbooks, matchboxes, etc. in the collection?
Thanks,
Kim Kenney
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McKinley Museum
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and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of
war." --25th United States President William McKinley
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