Panoramic Preservation

At the National Air and Space Museum archives-the solution is really diluted items.  Most of the things to come to us in good condition and very few stores before them.  Sometimes, however, we receive an item that is a well established before it can be used.  So, when I come.  I am keeping archivist and my job objects that may be unstable or identify is in need of protection.  So far I found 47 our items in a collection that has some level of maintenance.

  Recently I had the opportunity to keep one of those items, panorama photo five De Havilland DH-4 mail levels that have been modified aviabellanca aircraft.Black and white picture is 10 x 66 inches and five levels that flew Reno Elko, Nevada mail routing Standing around the image. pilots and crews of the machines are.

Previously a while very person "framed" to the placing on board and how to make a backup copy of a photo that covers with flexible plastic material, together with the social partners were stuck. using vinyl self-adhesive Photo came to us with a background picture. loosely rolled cardboard shipping box. 

  Panoramic Photo for shipping cardboard box

Keep this photo and make it available to the public, so that it can remove the frame and stored flat. Photo was difficult to determine, at the same time as frame. Nora Lockshin, paper conservator Smithsonian archives, from his two interns with Shereen Choudhury and Rachel Midura lend us their time and expertise. Our four group you want to delete a photo, he worked to frame and define the concept of safe storage. Learn about the process by which you keep this photo Contact Nora's blog.

Nora Lockshin examines the distortion of the panoramic photo, even though Mark Kahn and Jordan Ferraro show (National Air and Space Museum Archives).

  When the photo has been removed from the frame we can detect some of the wonderful historical evidence, the names of some of the image. men are written in lower margin. these names showed that the same persons are at the two ends of the photo.  This was often at the beginning of the panoramic photos 360 when processing the rotation of the camera.The film and camera CatGenie Cartridge work around along the vertical axis, when the camera is in the past, the location of the people behind the camera, and run the drive stand for the photo at the end of the opposite.Because the camera turns to the slower then they work, they end up in a photo twice. This photo shows that you may have been committed intentionally, they did not have enough people to stand in front of all five level?

Final, and I think most of the idea of energy use, we have completed the case was confirmed in the back of the photo.

Releasing photo bad enclosure, pauses, minimize physical stress and allows staff to operate for two fragments from the work center at one time.When, at the back of the photo annotation can be detected.(Lockshin figure) intervention measures and the panoramic photo. Stabilizing at the National Air and Space Museum Archives.

It is part,

"_ _ (To be paid to the tear is missing, you can see the picture) ___ half I left by a plane ride, Reno February Elko NV for mail pit. around the rivikohdetta Reno Elko is 600 Miles. we did a 5 hours 120 miles per hour, 1000 ft alt. a flight synthetic training device used for the same journey do this every day but Sunday. Snow, Rain, Hail or they want to receive mail FOG. we have had a lot of smash, but the only one killed by the pilot, who was, she is married, his return trip Elko pilot Lewis.

We've made good to may 1.1921, 5?

This text will be displayed just what heartrending these men have endured to get mail. it points out that, at the same time, we were so tarvitsevaa mail system information, and that men may, in some cases, lost, make sure that the information received in the context of his life.

Jordan Ferraro is archivist in the National Air and Space Museum Archives Division.