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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.
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