Those of you of a certain age might remember in your early years at school the long metal tube with the large roll down map that hung on the wall of your classroom.
Recently the Stanford’s large school series Map of India 1914 by James L. Barton came into my hands to construct an enclosure for safekeeping. This map arrived in the Preservation Department as a folded 10” x 9” piece from a 62” x 54” map and with careful conservation efforts by our conservator, Sophia (Sonya) Barron, the map is now viewable again. It was next handed off to me to construct a box.
The challenge in making this box was its size and I wanted a lightweight product. I used the corrugated blue board for its length and light weight, Ethafoam for cradles that were easy to carve with a knife to the size I needed, Velcro straps to hold the box together, and Velcro coins to hold the end caps on. I am pleased with the end product. Stay tuned as there will be more on the Map of India in a future post from Sonya and her conservation treatment.
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