{"id":4815,"date":"2018-05-02T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2018-05-14T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:12:26","slug":"back-from-the-bindery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/2018\/05\/02\/back-from-the-bindery\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the Bindery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just returned from the bindery after slightly more than one year\u2019s absence is a set of early \u2013 and rare \u2013 Fall River valuation books; they document the town of Fall River, from 1841-1853, the city of Fall River, from 1854-1860, and the town of Fall River, Rhode Island, from 1858-1861.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Valuation books provide an annual accounting of taxes for individuals who resided in Fall River, with details provided for taxes due that were related to real estate ownership and personal estates; also included is the poll tax. Much of the information recorded is not available elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The twenty-one oversized volumes spent decades in storage \u2013 the original bindings were in tatters or completely absent, making it impossible for them to be available to researchers; the pages survived in a remarkable state of preservation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before being delivered to the bindery, each volume was painstakingly cleaned, in-house, requiring careful vacuuming along the inside spine, where each page is connected \u2013 amazing what accumulates there \u2013 and cleaning each leaf with a soft brush. At the bindery, they were completely rebound, using archival quality materials; durable, canvas-covered boards were installed, ensuring their resiliency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The $3200 cost of this work was generously made possible with funds provided by a grant from the <em>Earle P. Charlton Jr. Charity Fund<\/em>, which has provided considerable support to the FRHS\u2019s Charlton Library of Fall River History.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from the bindery after slightly more than one year\u2019s absence is a set of early \u2013 and rare \u2013 Fall River valuation books; they document the town of Fall River, from 1841-1853, the city of Fall River, from 1854-1860, and the town of Fall River, Rhode Island, from 1858-1861. Valuation books provide an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[51,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}