The following message was posted on the photoconservation list and may be of 
interest to people with architectural plans and drawings in their holdings. 
Note the book is available in September 2009 from Oak Knoll Press..  Link to 
Oak Knoll Web site is at bottom of the message.

Iona McCraith
AAO Preservation Consultant
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Available September 2009

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOREPRODUCTIONS: A MANUAL FOR IDENTIFICATION AND CARE
Kissel, Eléonore and Erin Vigneau.
Introduction by Lois Olcott Price


- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press 2009
- 8 x 10 inches
- stiff paper wrappers.
- 140 pages
- ISBN 9781584562160 / Order Nr. 94208
- Price: $ 49.95

Second edition with corrections, new prefaces, a redesigned flow chart, and 
updates to the original text based on new information that has come to light 
over the past decade.

This manual is designed for professional conservators, librarians, private 
collectors, and researchers who want practical, contemporary insight into 
preserving architectural plans and drawings. The authors provide detailed 
methods for identifying architectural photoreproductions based on visual 
examination. The manual discusses twelve distinct processes and offers 
additional information on several other methods commonly used in North 
American architectural practice from 1860 to approximately 1960.

One of the manual's important features is the flowchart, an outline using a 
series of questions leading the reader to a preliminary identification. Each 
process is described in a separate chapter with numerous color illustrations 
of general and magnified views of select photoreproductions. Each chapter 
includes sections on how to identify a print, trade names and synonyms, the 
history and use of the printing process, how a print was manufactured, and 
degradation and storage considerations. Each of the 54 illustrations, 
critical for identifying a document's state of condition and extent of 
damage, have been carefully photographed and checked to ensure correct color 
representation. Appendices give information on storage and handling, 
exhibition and current methods of reproduction of architectural prints and 
drawings.

Eléonore Kissel is a Paper Conservator and a Consultant in Preventative 
Conservation. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and Science from 
Concordia University, Montreal, and a Master's Degree in Conservation from 
the Sorbonne Paris I University. Eléonore is an active member of the 
conservation community in France, teaching courses at the Sorbonne Paris I 
University and the Institut National du Patrimoine. She has published in 
Museum International (UNESCO), International Preservation News (IFLA), The 
Book and Paper Group, and Musées et collections publiques de France.

Erin Vigneau currently works as a Lecturer in Art and Design at Southern 
Illinois University Edwardsville as well as other universities in 
metropolitan St Louis. She has worked as a book and archives conservator at 
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden, Princeton 
University Library and The Conservation Center for Art and Historical 
Artifacts. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from 
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 
Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Erin 
has published in The Book and Paper Group Annual (The American Institute for 
Conservation) and The Guild of Book Workers Newsletter.

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Luis Nadeau