Owner: Antarctic Heritage TrustAntarctic Heritage Trust, New-Zealand. Description : booklet, composed of 20 detachable printed luggage labels, from the collection of c.18,000 artefacts at Terra Nova Hut, the expedition base built by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and party during his 1910-1913 expedition to Antarctica. Main damages : paper heavily damaged by the environmental conditions at the hut (freeze-thaw, high humidity, exposure to water, and salt damage), very dirty, deformed and chemically unstable. Treatment applied : delicate mechanical cleaning (trying to recover all parts of the object) ; aqueous cleaning, de-acidifcation, reinfrocement when required ; booklet re-mounted into its original layout.


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