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Rose Daly
Summer Work Project 2009Shelburne Museum
Shelburne, Vermont
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Internship
Collections/ Education Interns &
Conservation Interns
at a concert
Shelburne Museum
&Grounds
Courtesy of Shelburne Museumhttp://www.shelburnemuseum.org/visit/
maps_directions.php
Fort Sub Rosa by
Britt Browne&
Graham Keegan
KalkinHouse
“Museums have histories of their own, but how little is known of the making
of private collections” -Louisine Havemeyer
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Louisine Havemeyer and her
daughter Electra 1895
Mary Cassatt
Louisine HavemeyerMary Cassat
Courtesy of Shelburne Museumhttp://www.vermontwoman.com/articles/0708/cassatt.shtml
19th Amendment - ratified 1920
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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Edgar Degas Repetition au Foyer (Rehearsal
Studio)
About 1874 – Egg tempera on canvasCourtesy of Shelburne Museum
Edgar Degas Deux Danseuses (Two
Dancers) About 1879 – Pastel and gouache on paper
Courtesy of Shelburne Museum
Edouard Manet The Grand Canal, Venice
(Blue Venice) 1875 – Oil on canvas
Courtesy of Shelburne Museum
The Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Buidling
Courtesy of Shelburne Museum
“To keep on in Father’s footsteps in the way of collecting Art. Very few appreciating it and
all discouraging me.”-Electra Havemeyer Webb
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Courtesy of:http://academics.smcvt.edu/shelburnemuseum/sestey/Electra%20Havemeyer%20Webb.htm
American Folk Art/Americana
Fish with Flag Trade Sign Fragment, Mid-19th
century Painted wood and sheet ironCourtesy of Shelburne Museum
Mermaid Weathervane~1825-50 Carved
wood, originally polychromedCourtesy of Shelburne Museum
William Matthew Prior (1806-1873) Nancy Lawson
1843 – Oil on canvasCourtesy of Shelburne Museum
Squirrel Cage, About 1900
Carved, sawed, and turned polychromed wood with iron rods
Courtesy of Shelburne Museum
Photo courtesy of Shelburne Museum ArchivesElectra and J.W. Webb and their 5 vhildren
“I started collecting early in life and just hid things away. When the time came, everything came out and Shelburne
Museum was born” -Electra Havemeyer Webb
Vergennes Schoolhouse
Steamboat Ticonderoga
Horseshoe Barn
Preservation and Conservation at Shelburne Museum
Rick KerschnerHead of Preservation/
Conservationphoto taken by Nancie RavenelCourtesy of Shelburne Museum
1952 1979 1982
Museum Opens
SurveyBy:
Sheldon KeckGerry Hoephner Pat Reeves - Textiles Colonel Gilbert - FurniturePeter Sparks - director of WUDPAC
} Paintings
RickKerschner
hired
The Lab
Nancie RavenelObjects
Conservator
Rick Kerschner
Laura Brill Kress Fellow in Conservation
Diana Dan Larrabee Laine KirkhoffLouisa
Treatment
Solar Bagging Carousel Rounding Board
Preventive
Environmental Management Costume Collection Survey
Environmental Management
Appropriate collection materials for this environment
Covered BridgeCategory 1
BarnCategory 2 Historic House
Category 3
RetrofittedHistoric House
Category 4
New ConstructionCategory 5
Purpose-BuiltCategory 6
EHW Memorial BuildingComplete Climate Control
Prentis HouseConservation Heating and Ventilation
LighthouseConservation Ventilation
Beach GalleryConservation Cooling and Heating
Diamond BarnHeating
TiconderogaNo Climate Control
Systems
System Maintenance
Rick examining the HVAC system
Dectron Hot gas reheat
system
Calibration
Vaisala RH Meter
Barnsthat freeze in the winter
Independent Monitoring Systems
Hygrothermograph
PEM
Preservation Environment Monitor
PEM 2
http://myclimatedata.com/
Costume Collection Survey
Lynn BassetCollections Fellows
Costume collection in need of re-housing
Re-housing materials and costs
Solar Bagging
T. Strang “The effect of thermal methods of pest control in museum
collections”
Instituut Collectie Nederland (ICN) “The
solar tent”
Carriage “bonnet”
Mylar window
Just in case
Eagle RoundingBoard Treatment
Before Treatment
Ethanol
1:1 Ethanol:Stoddards
1:1 Ethanol:Acetone
Petroleum Benzine
Acetone
1:1 Acetone:Isopropanol
Solubility testing of aged linseed oil
5% TEA GelCarbopol = 1gramDI water = 100mLTEA = 5mLGlacial Acetic Acid = 12 dropsPH ~ 7.5Clear with 5% TEA Buffer Solution
5% TEA Buffer SolutionDI water = 100mLTEA = 5mLGlacial Acetic Acid = 20 dropsPH ~ 7.5
Gel application
Buffer application
Before Treatment
After Treatment
After cleaningwith ethanol
After cleaning with gel and buffer
Before Treatment
After Treatment
From: maps.google.comNew Orleans
temperature 99 degrees, humidity 85%
Shelburne
temperature 82 degrees
humidity 70%
NPS/NCPTT Ornamental Iron
WorkshopJune 18-19 2009New Orleans, LA
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Jason ChurchMaterials Conservator at NCPTT
Mary StreigelMaterials Research Program Director
at NCPTT
Eric Schindelholzmaterials science Phd. student at the University of Virginia
Marie Laveau’s Tomb
with “X” scratched into the surface
Foil represents water
Roundup weed killerIsopropylamine salt of glyphosate and FD&C Blue
No. 1
Theft
Andrew’s Welding & Blacksmith Daryl Reeves
Cleaning with a wire brush
Rust conversion with tannic acid in barium
sulfate
XRF Analysis
Simple Repairs using a pinning method.
Priming - must be compatible with enamel paint
Painting
flat finish enamel paint
A Mardi Gras statue
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Poster by Rose DalyNCPTT Cemetery preservation summit
October 2009
Special ThanksShelburne MuseumKathryn Heminway
The Electra McDowell Fund
Nancie RavenelRick Kerschner
Laura Brill The Professional Development FundAllison Daly
Mary StriegelEric Schinderholtz
Jason ChurchVicki CassmanJae GutierrezGinny GreeneJennifer Mass
from the Louisiana bayou. . . to the beach at lake Champlain . . . Back across the Delaware river . . . To
start WUDPAC again