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		<title>Chartex at ANAGPIC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 24th, I presented my research at the annual ANAGPIC conference.  If you saw my talk and have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave a comment on this post. (your fearless Chartex researcher presenting at the conference) Also, I finally got around to scanning the instructional sheets included with my Chartex [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=31&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Micrograph of Chartex fibers and adhesive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two images taken with the polarizing light microscope. This is the cotton backing: This is the adhesive:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=26&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes to self</title>
		<link>http://suzymorgan.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/notes-to-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mapbak: similar product made by DryTec&#8230;still in production, uses &#8220;solvent acrylic&#8221; adhesive Chartex shows up in the 1988 volume of the Trademark Register, but not the 1989 nor any of the following years.  Can possibly assume Seal had ceased production by 1989&#8230; Marketed to teachers and librarians (ALA Bulletin Ad #1, ALA Bulletin Ad #2, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=18&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on heat-assisted removal of Chartex&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://suzymorgan.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/thoughts-on-heat-assisted-removal-of-chartex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chartex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Chartex is described as &#8220;removable&#8221; in every source I could find that mentioned it by name&#8230;it requires heating your object up to 200ºF. That&#8217;s 93.3ºC &#8211; twice as much heat as is typically used to apply heat-set tissue mends. And after 30-40 years after it&#8217;s application, the Chartex adhesive has probably undergone at least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=17&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still looking good at 100 years&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chartex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I noticed, while at the Cincinnati Art Museum, is that for vast majority of those posters lined with Chartex, the support was still in really good condition. Granted, many of the posters were grimy or slightly darkened/yellowed by time &#8211; shop that morning. There was a small group of posters in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=16&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chartex: What is Known and What Remains a Mystery&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://suzymorgan.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/chartex-what-is-known-and-what-remains-a-mystery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chartex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adhesive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, I&#8217;ve found out the following regarding the Chartex cloth backing: It&#8217;s cotton fabric permeated with a wax-based, low-temperature adhesive. Supposedly it&#8217;s also &#8220;acid-free&#8221; &#8211; I&#8217;m assuming they&#8217;re referring to the cotton. It&#8217;s removable at 200ºF, according to the directions included with a box of Chartex. But it&#8217;s also said to bond at 150-175ºF, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=15&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Currently Reading: Billers, Banners and Bombast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Circus History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I checked out Fox and Parkinson&#8217;s Billers, Banners and Bombast: The Story of Circus Advertising from the PCL today. It is full of some great photos, especially of the posters in their &#8220;natural habitat&#8221; of building sides, barns, telephone poles and fences. &#160; Charles Philip Fox and Tom Parkinson. Billers, banners, and bombast : the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=12&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of a lined poster&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://suzymorgan.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/photo-of-a-lined-poster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[chartex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the bottom right corner of one of the Strobridge Litho. Co. posters at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Note how flexible it is &#8211; all of the Chartex-lined posters were very flexible and in really good condition compared to the unlined or cotton-and-starch-paste lined posters.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=9&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hurray for E-Bay!</title>
		<link>http://suzymorgan.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/hurray-for-e-bay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a box of Chartex (made by Seal, Inc.) on E-Bay a few weeks ago, and promptly bought it. Well, it finally arrived in the mail and with it a helpful bit of information. On the instruction sheet included with the box, it was found that Chartex can be removed once it is heated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=6&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Box of Chartex.</media:title>
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		<title>Introduction&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my summer internship at the Cincinnati Museum of Art, and the Ringling Museum of Art, I worked with a collection of circus posters that had been lined with a textile lining (known as Chartex) applied with a wax adhesive. The quality of the lining application varied extensively – many posters had been lined nicely, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=suzymorgan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2125205&amp;post=5&amp;subd=suzymorgan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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