RWWPhoto
Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:12:54 -0700
How about not "cleaning" monuments, headstones, statues, etc., that are not
your property without the express permission of the cemetery and the
descendants or owners of the plot? Unless the process is proven to be
harmless for a couple of hundred years, I would be suspicious that we might
well be reducing the "lifetime" of a vital record for our own selfish
purposes. Let it go at the best photograph we can make.
I have collected daguerreotype photographs for some thirty years. Early
in my collecting career I ruined several of my best dagguerres by following
the "cleaning" recommendations provided by the best archivists of the time.
Unfortunately, the damage did not appear for several years and, so far, is
irreversible.
What would you do if you visited an ancestors gravesite and found someone
scrubbing away with ORVUS on your ggrandmothers headstone?
Roger W. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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