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...this is true, but if the artifact is going into a historic structure
to be subjected to the strains of uncontrolled climate, etc., why not
use a reproduction? Since it appears that reproductions of these images
are readily available (see previous posts, I do believe it would be far
more responsible to use them rather than a period original.
Hi, Jodi...good luck! Vivian Lea Stevens
Re:discovery Software
Client Services
(Erstwhile historian, former Curator, and neophyte reenactor)
Greg Koos wrote:
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> Jodi,
> Why not check out the flea markets and antique malls. The likelyhood of turning up
> and "original"which is useable is pretty high.
> Greg Koos
> Bloomington IL
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> Jodi Evans wrote:
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> > A local group has asked for my help in locating reproduction images of
> > George Washington and Abe Lincoln for use in interpreting a one-room school
> > house, @1920s.
> > I'm fairly certain that the group wants an image of the unfinished 1796
> > Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart.
> > The Lincoln image is a little more problematic - there are so many and I'm
> > not sure image would have been found in a 1920s one-room school house.
> >
> > What I really need are sources for inexpensive reproductions - the group
> > will simply have to choose from what's available.
> >
> > Anyone know of suitable sources?
> >
> > Jodi
> > Jodene K. Evans
> > Registrar
> > State Historical Society of Iowa
> > 600 E. Locust
> > Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0290
> > 515/281-3295
> > FAX 515/282-0502
> > e-mail [log in to unmask]
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