Pressed Flowers Album
Pressed flowers album
This beautiful book of pressed flowers was compiled by newlyweds Ralph L. and Hetty G. Dixon, who collected the majority of the specimens along the banks of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Towpath in Georgetown in the 1920s. Although the Dixons were amateurs, they took great care in the mounting and identification of their blooms, and it is thanks to this that most of the specimens remain intact. But the love story contained within these pages isn’t the only golden thing about the book; the locally collected flowers include golden corydalis and golden ragwort.
This is an early 20th-century blotter book used as a flower album. The book has blotter pages and interleaving tissue. The plant specimens are attached using narrow white tape. The covers are soiled, and the black spine lining is detaching at the head of the spine. Several of the interleaving sheets are detached at the corners. Conservators will dry clean the front and back covers and reattach the black spine lining. The corners of the interleaving tissue will also be reattached. A custom double-tray box will be created to house this valuable item.
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Adoption Type: Preserve for the Future
