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A Before Treatment Normal Light Photograph of Fragments in the Dinwiddie Papers Letter Book No. 3

"A Before Treatment Normal Light Photograph of Fragments in the Dinwiddie Papers Letter Book No. 3",
Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, 1751-1758.
22 letterbooks and letters. Mss3 V8194a.

Picture illustrates that fragments continuously break from the pages
because of the corrosive byproducts migrating from the iron gall ink.


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