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Conservation: Adopt-an-Artifact program
By Carrie Barker, Collections Specialist
This year, many community members bonded together behind a common cause: the conservation of the Pool portrait, a recent acquisition with significant local ties. The oil painting of young Gaston Pool (b. 1851-d. 1852), who is buried beside his mother Narcissa Sawyer Pool in the Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery behind the museum, inspired many to donate funds to hire professional conservators to clean, stabilize, and correct damage to the painting and its frame.
A DICTIONARY OF THE HOLY BIBLE, 1859
Owned by Mrs. Margaret A. Brooks and needs conservation.
Courtesy Museum of the Albemarle
The damaged spine of the book needs repair.
Courtesy Museum of the Albemarle
Museum of the Albemarle’s Adopt-an-Artifact program has successfully raised money for specialized care of our artifacts for many years. Recently added to the program—since the success of the Pool portrait campaign!—is an 1859 edition of A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, which belonged to Margaret A. Brooks, wife of George Brooks, an anti-secessionist throughout the Civil War.
