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phansford
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
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Location: SW Ohio
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 Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: OT- White Pine Monographs |
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Since I either post here or the residential design forum, I figured there would be more people here who might be able to help me.
I have nearly 17 years of the White Pine monographs - dating from the very first issue. Six years of which are bound into three volumes. These bound volumes are from the same period and were bound by the original publisher.
After talking to a few rare book sellers - its best to kept the individual issues unbound. This will help maintain their value. Talking to a local book binder, I will not get the quality of binding of the original bound volumne and the books would never lay flat, which would kill the opportunity to use them as a detailing reference in the studio.
AND of course I want to be be able to reference these booklets when needed and being stored in a box does not cut it. 
I am wondering if anyone here has any suggestions about getting this on a shelf in my library.
I have thought about getting some magazine holders
but didn't know how others are handling such items
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MaryBeth
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: White Pine Monographs |
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Dear Phansford,
Since no one seems to have had the same dilemma, I hope that the forum won't mind my posting even though I so infrequently do! My partner Lawrence and I also have a collection of White Pine Monographs and many other old, scarce books of measured drawings. In additon to being an invaluable resource, they are a real joy to look at. They were produced at a time when both measured drawings and book making were real art forms. Because these books are fragile, we do not use them as working books. We have come up with a handful of ways to both store and make them accessible. Maybe some of our solutions will help. When we first began collecting measured drawings for research, we had no budget to purchase books, so we borrowed monographs and books through interlibrary loans or drove to libraries that had them. We photocopied the books and put each page in a page protector and then into a 3-ring binder. These lie flat and stand on shelves. For the White Pine volumes, we were primarily interested in the drawings of Frank Chouteau Brown. We scanned those drawings into our computer and frequently "view" them through Photoshop. These drawings are also in a 3-ring binder. We also found two series of books that are reprints of the White Pine Series: The Architectural Treasures of Early America. The series edited by Lisa Mullins is printed in green ink and doesn't make the best copies. The series by Robert Miner is printed in black ink. They are easy to pick up on-line and are not expensive. Instead of the original White Pines, we use these reprints for reference and working copies. Several other oversized volumes have been scanned into the computer for safe keeping and then printed out on heavy paper. They are kept together with a binder clip and we are free to use them as we will. The photocopying and scanning is time consuming, but the books are rare and we have begun to think of ourselves as the caretakers of them. Over the years, we have been shocked to see White Pines "go missing" from libraries that we use and interlibrary loan departments ship early 19th century volumes across the country for us to borrow. It was good for us, but tough on the fragile, disentigrating volumes. Finally, University of Wisconsin is putting many of their rare volumes on line in very high resolution images. We are able to regularly view books that we have never had the pleasure to see, much less dream about the $10,000 price tag!
MaryBeth
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/ |
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phansford
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
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Location: SW Ohio
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:31 am Post subject: |
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Marybeth -
Thanks for the ideas. Scanning the pages for studio use sounds like an excellent idea.
I did correspond with the archives librarian at the local University. She told me how they store items like the White Pines. They use high quality magazine files like I showed in the original post and provide a list of sources for purchasing those items. That should store them properly, then I can use your idea of scanning pages as I use them to build the digital library.
I still have to determine what to do with the monographs that look to have been originally bound. (there is glue residue on the edge)
I am a one person office and have the occasional assistant. So my library is fairly protected. But when I begin to grow, these items will not leave their protective environment of my house. (My studio is in my home).
This love for old and new books can be treacherous It is nice that there are reprints of a lot of older stuff. Thank God I don't live too close to Prairie Avenue Bookshop..... I'd be broke. |
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