Museum Review of Henry County Time Capsule documents, New Castle, IN treatment & exhibition

1907 Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile

Time Capsule Documents

New Castle, IN Marianne Hughes, marianne@reachbb.com

Gene Ingram,

Henry County Historic

Society M-Sat 1-4:30pm

www.nchcpl.lib.in.us / henrycounty

606 S. 14th St., New

Castle, IN 47362

765-529- 4028

1907 Time Capsule July 2007

Scroll & Briscoe before treatment

Briscoe folded

above Scroll above

Briscoe Parchment

It was flattened after it was humidified.

It unrolled so that it can be read.

Drying after wet immersion

The parchment scroll

does have bled

signatures. They

cannot be changed

but it was mounted on

a matching acid free

backing to make it

pleasant to view and

stabilized for easy

aging.

Maxwell-Briscoe before & after

Scroll after & before

• The directors scroll was stabilized, flattened and

somewhat restored and is more readable text

after it was flattened.

Other Treated Docs

• We included

individual buffer

mounts for other

semi-treated

objects on the day

of my visit on site.