Hi Tracy,

You may want to contact some local graphics shops to see if they would be
willing to make some graphics panels or lettering and donate them to your
historical society as a gift in kind.

A cheap way to have large photos made is through some of the places that
will blow up photos into posters.  Some of them give prety good quality
especialy with old black and white photos.  Check with any place that
develops photos.

For display panels, a cheap way to go is to use hollow core doors that you
can get in a variety of sizes at most building supply stores.  The doors can
be painted, or fabric covered, and hindged or screwed together in a variety
of angles to give free standing displays.  The hollow core doors that are
hindged together are lightweight and can be transported easily in a van or
pickup.  You can also sometimes find used hollow core doors at garage sales.
If you cover them with a nice linen fabric, put a small latice strip of wood
on the edges, they look great.  They can also be attached to existing walls
or pedestals to give a variety of arrangements.

I hope this helps.
Earl Lock

----- Original Message -----
From: Traci Langworthy <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:26 PM
Subject: affordable exhibit options for small historical society


> Hello all kind readers!
>
> I am a trustee for a small historical society in upstate NY and we would
> like to put together at least a somewhat professional-looking exhibit (our
> first, really) as part of our activities for our town's bicentennial next
> summer. We have only a limited number of objects in our young collection
> which relate to the town's earliest history, but we would still like to
> create some sort of visual narrative with the help of some text panels and
> enlarged photos/graphics/maps telling the story of the first years
> of "settlement" before the town became incorporated. We want to have a
> somewhat portable result that we could take to a permanent home in the
> future (we are in a temporary space right now) or move to different
> community venues if the opportunity arises. But we do not have a lot of
> money to invest in "trade show" display systems or fabricated designs.
> Would anyone be willing to suggest some options we might consider either
in
> the way of affordable materials and mounting techniques we could do
> ourselves (with the help of graphics people, as needed) or some
inexpensive
> material suppliers? Any help is much appreciated!
>
> Thanks very much,
> Traci Langworthy
> Sheridan Historical Society, NY
>
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