Union County - Plainfield - Selected Conservation and Preservation Projects at the Plainfield Public Library


Tuesday, November 13 – Union County

Plainfield Public Library, ALD Meeting Room, November 13, 2018, 4:30pm

Subject: Selected Conservation and Preservation Projects at the Plainfield Public Library

Speaker 1: Sarah Hull, Head of Local History, Genealogy & Special Collections, Plainfield Public Library. Title: Preserving a 19th century accounts ledger and scrapbook

Sarah Hull will present a recent conservation and preservation project of an 1820s accounts ledger once belonging to Vail family members in Philadelphia, PA, and Plainfield, NJ. The handwritten ledger was later covered over with newspaper clippings dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. The conservation work to save both ledger and clippings was completed in 2011 by the CCAHA in Philadelphia. 

    Since 2008, Sarah has been employed at the Plainfield Public Library, where she is responsible for managing the Library’s archive and special collections. She also creates and maintains the Local History Department’s web pages, online exhibits, and CONTENTdm collections. Sarah is the current Vice President of the NJLA History & Preservation Section.

Speaker 2: Gary D. Saretzky, Archivist, County of Monmouth
Title: Challenges in the Printing of Nitrate and Acetate Negatives in the Paul Collier and Reina Lawrence Collections

   In 2008-2009 and 2013, Gary contact printed more than 1,600 negatives, mostly 8x10 nitrate and acetate, in the Paul Collier and Reina Lawrence collections at the Plainfield Public Library. Some of the negatives were already showing significant signs of deterioration. Issues involved in obtaining detailed positives and steps taken to preserve the original negatives will be discussed.

    Monmouth County Archivist since 1994, Gary taught history of photography at Mercer County Community College, 1977-2012, coordinated the Rutgers Public History Internship Program, 1994-2016, and has been a free-lance photographer since 1975 with specializations in photographic conservation and fine art photography. He lectures regularly on 19th century photography in New Jersey through the Public Scholars Program of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Gary is the current president of the Princeton Preservation Group.

Meetings of the Princeton Preservation Group are free and open to the public. To become a member and be placed on the mailing list for announcements, see http://princetonpreservation.org
Location: 800 Park Ave, Plainfield, NJ 07060, USA

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