This adorable turkey is made from tools used in our conservation lab!
Happy Thanksgiving!
We’re thankful to have the tools to preserve and make your history accessible to you!
This delightful “tool turkey” was created by Sara Holmes, a conservator with Preservation Programs at the National Archives in St. Louis.
The feathers are made of bone folders (used to smooth out creases), microspatulas (used to remove many, many staples and other fasteners), and several types of palette knives (used as lifters, such as for removing tape).
The body is a horn folder (similar to the bone folders), wattle and eyes are made of binders' tape (used in book repair), the beak is a small piece of foamed eraser (used to clean paper, including removing mold from the surface of paper), and the feet are tweezers (used in mending to hold small fragments as well as to hold tissue used to make the mend repairs)..
Peek inside our amazing Heritage Science Lab!
Learn more about our Conservation Lab!
See also:
We Welcome Cancy Chu - Our 1st Fulbright Scholar!
Conservators: Magicians of the Archives!
Preservation Lab at the National Archives, St. Louis - see ongoing work to save and reconstruct the records damaged by fire.
1297 Magna Carta Conservation - UV photography reveals previously illegible writing! (on loan from David M. Rubenstein).
What's a Conservator?
NARA Conservators Meet the Challenge Every Day, Prologue Magazine.
National Archives Conservators Reveal Previously Illegible Text in Magna Carta.
Repairing Existing Damage to Family Papers and Photographs.
Declaration of Independence - learn about the conservation treatment and re-encasement of the document.
Preserving the Dunlap Broadside .
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Rem...Rem...we were no good...right from the start. We...I...should never...have been...born.
Trigun Volume 2, Chapter 8
[ALT ID: A vertical comic of Vash and Millions Knives from Trigun. The top of the comic shows Vash on his hands and knees with his teeth bared and wings out; the middle section shows Knives with his wings and giant sword arm out; the final section shows the two of them as children, standing together while Knives is throwing his hands up in excitement and Vash is grinning at him. Over the comic is the quote, "We were no good right from the start."]
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“Just what is it that runs in your veins, Jedao?”
“You’re welcome to cut me open to find out. Knife’s on my left hip if you forgot yours.”
“Oh, I intend to.”
spent most of my Sunday on @figuwhump day 12, which dovetailed really nicely with a couple of MoE thumbnails I was saving. ‘this looks like consensual kink, is this actually whump,’ you might be asking, and to that i say, with Kujen & Jedao it can be both
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My dress is on fire
And I hurl myself, I heal myself
I drag myself like a rug in the rain
And my saint she is dancing
As every step I choose to take
Begins to set the world aflame
And the soldiers march behind me
I can hear them beat their spears
And for the first time in all my life
I know I’m more than what I fear
"Blossoms" - The Amazing Devil
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