Re: Archival matters/Re: Bugs

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From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 03/24/02-02:15:58 PM Z


Actually I usually add a few drops of thymol in alcohol to my
pigmented gelatin solution before coating carbon tissue.

Sandy King

>You could treat the prints with thymol,...you know the stuff they put in
>Listerene :-)
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>Seriously why not put some kind of pest replellant near your storage area or
>even within the boxes...actually I believe thymol "IS" truely used.
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>on 3/21/02 9:14 PM, Phillip Murphy at pmurf@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
>> Hello Sandy,
>>
>> Have you considered a wet-mounting method? In his book "The Albumen and
>> Salted Paper Book", James Reilly documents a method of wet-mounting prints
>> that was developed by David Kolody. The method utilizes a wheat starch
>> paste. Although an excellent method, there still exists the entomological
>> problem.
>> http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/reilly/chap10.html
>>
>> This method was modified and improved upon later at the Palladio Company
>> Inc. as a mounting method for Albumen prints. The adhesive used by them was
>> methyl cellulose. The material isn't a food source like wheat starch. It's
>> been years since I spoke with Sura Steinberg of the Palladio Company
>> regarding this, however, there was a time when I experimented with this
>> method for Carbon prints and it worked very well. One advantage of this
>> method of mounting is that it is easily removed in cool water. Sorry that I
>> cannot offer a more detailed account of methyl cel wet mounting. There is a
>> good introductory article on wet mounting by Chris Paschke at
>> http://www.pictureframingmagazine.com/pdfs/mastermount/wetmount.pdf
>>
>> all the best,
>> Phillip
>>
>> Sandy King wrote:
>>

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