[BCMA] Scrapbook conservation

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Wendy,
Please do not laminate it.  Scrapbooks are complicated items (as you have seen) and dealing with it will likely not be very easy.  If you send me your email I’m happy to send you some resources off list for deciding what to do.

Cheers,

Jodine Perkins, MLS


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> Hello
> I have a conservation question you can help me with.
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> This tiny not for profit museum received a scrapbook donation which consists of a cheap scrapbook/photo album (with mostly black pages). It was put together by a group of Junior Red Cross members at a school in Ierapetra, Crete in 1959-1960.
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> Pages have a variety of additions. One has real grape leaf with grapes, another olives and olive leaves, another a sand and glue topical map of Crete (slightly damaged, another small handicrafts like costumes. Many pages have hand written notes on lined paper with ball point ink.
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> My challenge is to conserve the book while allowing access to it for visitors. I considered photographs but the real value is in seeing the original in its three dimensions.
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> Is it possible to laminate the pages and reconstitute the book and, if so, where do I go for this? Budget is very limited. 
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> Any other options?
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> Thank you
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> Wendy
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> Wendy Smylitopoulos
> Curator
> Greek Heritage Project Museum
> Victoria & Vancouver Greek Community Society
> 250 419-3151
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