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This document was cleaned, flattened, mended, deacidified and scanned. Here is a before of the original and an after of the corrected digital scan. Working at 600 dpi allows you to get down to where pen strokes and tears are … Continue reading →

Hit his old cloth bound book is now ready for rebuilding the spine and rebacking. Not too much page repair and cosmetics will be simple.

Tested more than a few solvents before cleaning this painting. After all was done it cleaned up nicely. Now it’s drying with a coat of damar varnish.

During the 1890s South Dakota organized a regiment to go to war. The ephemera and photos of the album do well in showing that experience. I also made an ePub book of the albums scans.

Click on the image to see a monstrous view of the bindery! Happy New Year to my wonderful clients and to you who I have not yet met. And a big thanks to Ron Cooper for this great shot!