
RESTORATION OF DOCUMENTS
Preserve Your Past™ had the pleasure and the privilege to restore many of documents that are directly related to the history of our great nation.
Among such documents are military papers signed by President Lincoln during the Civil War, a Policemen nominations signed by then New York Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt while he was cleaning up and restructuring New York City Police Department, documents and letters from World War 2, and documents flown to the Moon aboard Apollo 12 Space Mission.
Our restoration of documents and conservation services include a full range of treatments from the stabilization of fragile material to the complete restoration of documents printed or written on paper, parchment and vellum, including surface cleaning; non-aqueous deacidification to insure against further deterioration; mending of tears and infilling areas of paper loss. Various options are available to insure the treated documents remain stable, including polyester film encapsulation as well as various folders and archival storage boxes.
Prior to beginning of every restoration project, each document is examined and a written description of proposed treatments along with an estimated cost based on time and materials are submitted to the client. No restoration process is started until the client authorizes the proposal. Photo documentation is taken before and after treatment and is given to the client with the final restoration report.
When a document is too damaged to be restored by traditional means Preserve Your Past can have it restored using the latest digital restoration techniques - same procedures that are used in high quality photo restoration. A damaged document is scanned, digitally restored to as-good-as-new condition and printed on specialty paper making a wonderful display copy that can be showcased instead of the original. |