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No. 35
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Since we are involved every working day with 200 to 300-year-old documents there are a lot of things going on every day that are interesting and surprising. The documents and books become a constant source of entertainment and amazement. For example, we got a series of books that had been sent to the conservation section of the Maryland State Archives. They were infested with mold and had to be irradiated. However, working with the documents requires the use of gloves and a dust mask. Here is a look at one of the books.
This is after the book had been treated for mold. Here is a photo of the workstation.
When you see the condition of some of these records, you begin to understand the importance of what we are doing to digitize and preserve the records and all the information they contain. Here is how the books come to us.
Of course, not all the books are in this condition. Most of what Ann and I have been doing involves books in a lot better condition than these. We make interesting discoveries. Here is a pedigree chart that was found among the records we are digitizing.
Here is a photo of the entire chart. This particular chart was accompanied by a stack of original records from Ireland.
One last photo. Here is a notation about a court document. Can you read the date?
It took me a couple of minutes to figure it out, but now I can read all of the dates from this court and time period without much of a problem.
The things you learn on a mission!
Since we are involved every working day with 200 to 300-year-old documents there are a lot of things going on every day that are interesting and surprising. The documents and books become a constant source of entertainment and amazement. For example, we got a series of books that had been sent to the conservation section of the Maryland State Archives. They were infested with mold and had to be irradiated. However, working with the documents requires the use of gloves and a dust mask. Here is a look at one of the books.
This is after the book had been treated for mold. Here is a photo of the workstation.
Of course, not all the books are in this condition. Most of what Ann and I have been doing involves books in a lot better condition than these. We make interesting discoveries. Here is a pedigree chart that was found among the records we are digitizing.
Here is a photo of the entire chart. This particular chart was accompanied by a stack of original records from Ireland.
One last photo. Here is a notation about a court document. Can you read the date?
It took me a couple of minutes to figure it out, but now I can read all of the dates from this court and time period without much of a problem.
The things you learn on a mission!
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