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Box 5

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Photo Documentation and Written Documentation of the Conservation Work on the Last Will and Testament of Martha Washington, circa 1998-2002

 File — Box: 5
Scope and Contents Note From the File: The Christine Smith Conservation files (1945-2016; 2.69 cubic feet) concern the conservation of the wills of George Washington and Martha Washington. The files contain slide photographs of each page of each will, usually with additional detail photos. Each set of before-treatment slides represents the wills as they appeared in 1998, approximately nine decades after manuscript restorer William Berwick preserved them; the after-treatment slides document the appearance of each will in...
Dates: circa 1998-2002