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Clothing, curators, family history, genealogy, Jessica McClintock, preservation, story, white gloves, witing
Recently I posted about my sister’s Bonanza in a post named “Sis hits the Jackpot.” My oh my, what a chord this one struck. I have some requests out to various academic, professional and highly opinionated experts to “chime in” on many of the points raised in the story. Further inspired by the INCREDIBLE collection of Judy of http://www.Greatestgenerationlessons.wordpress.com I decided that I needed a new “category” on my blog.
I will try to find accurate and reliable answers to some of the conundrums we all experience This will be an on-going feature, so please throw any requests my way for topic explorations. I will run them as my “Well I Never!” posts, as in, “Well I never knew that”
One of the very first “questions” that I wanted to address with Well I Never has to do with the fantasy and daydream tangents that I am prone to…
such as when I am busily engrossed in being the curator of my own little treasure trove of familial goodies. In this delusion, I generally see myself dressed in a Jessica McClintock mixed with Ralph Lauren Downton Abbey-esque ”get up.” I sip tea (though in real life I don’t really care for it much) and I peruse my hoard of treasures with my highly decorative, yet functional, magnifying glass. I have special acid free wrappers and storage boxes. A heady aroma of fresh cut Peonies and Lavender wafts in the air. As an unspoken testament to my professionalism I wear white cotton curators’ gloves…wait…what?
I never see people wearing these on the History Channel…what gives?
If I am truly to be the caretaker of all this excellent family history and memorabilia, I really should have a clue how to properly handle and care for it…
So, off I went searching, and this fascinating article is what I found. Now, in true Mom fashion ~ Truth be damned ~ I will continue to wear these gloves in my fantasy world…but the reason that real-live curators no-longer wear them sure does make sense. Read on:
THE LINK BELOW IS THE UPDATED / REVISED ONE. As Genealogy Lady pointed out, the originally posted link wasn’t working correctly…This is what I love about blog readers who care 
http://archive.ifla.org/VI/4/news/ipnn37.pdf please note this is a pdf link to the original document, you will have to scroll to page #4 to read it. The authors seem pretty legit. However, since this subject has stirred it’s own bit of “choosin’ sides” I will continue to research it and let everyone know. I think I’ll do some face to face interviews instead of believing that everyone on the internet is a french model.
Meanwhile, if you would like to learn the ways of Jessica Mc Clintock and her fabulous world and lifestyle check out her book “Simply Romantic Decorating ~ Creating Elegance and Intimacy Throughout Your Home” by Jessica Mc Clintock and Karen Kelly
Since I already own a copy of that book and have Ralph’s website “favorited” on my desktop, I will be trolling Ebay and Amazon for real white cotton curator’s gloves and maybe some more fancy ones…wonder if I can type in these?
I have a box of those cheap white gloves to use to handle old documents and photos. I always forget I have them
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Good! Cause apparently it’s a big “no-no”
It’s kind of like tooth brushing. For years I couldn’t force myself to brush the way we were taught and then they changed the rules and apparently I had been doing it right all along!
Not fair…I had a big mouth full of latte when I read that!
Now everyone in Starbucks is wondering what I choked on
Hehehe.
The link you posted about the gloves doesn’t take you the article mentioned. I just watched a video the other day from NEGHS and they were wearing gloves to touch the manuscripts. Also most of the curators out there publishing about genealogy documents recommend them too.
1. Glad to hear that NEGHS still advocates for them…seems so tidy and offical to me
2. Rats on the link thing…I’ll get it fixed.
I finally searched on google to get there. The article mentioned all the things I think are stupid about wearing gloves. I reported it on my Facebook page. Thanks for sharing.
Great picture! It’s interesting how there are several very dffierent opinions on the use of gloves.
I bought em on ebay…had to have them:)
the fashion line drawings are from the Old Design Shop. I’m running an interview with her next week. She has so many cool graphics (tons are free)
Interesting post!
keep it up
…i’m with you!…we need to save our stories for future generations….I like your unique blog….thank you for “liking” my blog!….