[General Electric vacuum chamber Valley Forge, PA, with frozen books on shelves inside chamber door] [slide].

Title: 
[General Electric vacuum chamber Valley Forge, PA, with frozen books on shelves inside chamber door] [slide].

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Author/Artist: 
Martin, John H., 1922-2007.
Publisher: 
[Corning, N.Y. : J.H. Martin, 1972]
Description: 
1 slide : b&w.
Other Authors: 
Martin, John H., 1922-2007.
Corning Museum of Glass.
Subjects: 
Corning Museum of Glass. Library Slides.
Books Conservation and restoration Slides.
Floods New York (State) Corning Slides.
Corning (N.Y.) History 20th century Slides.
Bib ID: 
126489
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Variant Title: 
Caption titled in The Corning flood: museum under water : Books being moved into General Electric space chamber
Notes: 
Image displayed in the exhibition titled "The Flood of '72: Community, Collections and Conservation", held at the Rakow Research Library, May 24, 2012-January 3, 2014.
Slide owned by the Rakow Library.
Digitized from a slide by Boston Photo Imaging; Corning Museum of Glass; 2011.
Part of John H. Martin archives.
Image orientation: landscape.
"May 75 R10" typed on slide mount.
Following extensive research and experiments, David Fischer and Thomas Duncan discovered a successful freeze-drying technique. If books with coated paper were thawed at less than 37°F. while the water was evacuated in a vacuum chamber, the would be saved. Based on his research, 3,500 damaged books (mostly with coated paper) were placed in a large vacuum chamber, owned by General Electric, for thawing and drying. This process allowed a large number of books to be treated at one time, and it was the first time books with coated paper were able to be salvaged. Nearly half of the library's damaged collection was successfullyy restored with this method.
Series: 
Images of 1972 flood
Jack Martin's Museum under water ; 56

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Published in: The Corning Flood: Museum Under Water, 28535, p. 29, (fig.46B).
Published in "Picking up the pieces : forty years later, the Corning Museum of Glass reflects on Agnes's fury", by Alison Fromme, in Mountain Home, v. 7, issue 5, June 2012: AI87744, p. 19 (bottom).