Ron,

I always find it remarkable when people and instituitions 
can walk away from opportunity as too being too much 
bother.  I have a couple of ideas in mind of individuals 
and institutions.  It would seem that it would be best to 
keep these drawings in state.  University libraries would 
be a good place to start.  You might try contacting 
special collections at UCSD.  They or SDSU would be the 
natural repository for such things.  I'll be at UCLA this 
afternoon for a lecuture and I wll ask colleagues there 
what they think.     They have a very active architectural 
historian.  Also, this is something the Getty might be 
interested in.  They specialize in conversvation.  I have 
a friend who is a curator there, I can ask her who you 
should approach.  As for me, I teach at CSU Long Beach. 
 If neither UCSD nor UCLA nor the Getty show any interest, 
I can ask question here.

Flattening the drawings is not expense.  Where the 
conservator would come in is to deal with acidic paper.  I 
work in Ancient Corinth in Greece and we have drawer after 
drawer of old (100 years +) drawings that are holding up 
fine.  I suspect it would not be too large of a bill to 
preserve and conserve your drawings.

After the lecture today I'm off to the Bay Area to attend 
a wedding but contact me again early next week to see if I 
have learned anything.

Good luck in hunt.

Paul

Paul D. Scotton
Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics
Classics
California State University
1250 N. Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-2404


On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:18:25 -0500
  Ron May <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> Greetings and thanks for the tip. We took the plans to 
>the San Diego  
> Historical Society thinking they would be helpful and 
>ready to accept them for  their 
> collections, but the archivist rejected them as too much 
>bother (and  because 
> they want to make money selling copies right away). We 
>were sent packing  to 
> find a conservator, but the Balboa Art Conservation 
>Center is booked for 6  
> months.
> 
> My wife and I will discuss your offer and get back with 
>you. We also  
> received a contact from a blue print company in Carlsbad 
>(former archaeologist  there 
> has an idea). We are interested in your potential 
>funding sources. 
> 
> Where are you located?
> 
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.