Last week I promised for a solution for the over-sized posters, and luckily we worked something out. The large posters that are too big for even the map drawers will be folded either in half (or in quarters based on how giant the poster is). The goal is basically to have as few folds as possible. Then, we will make custom sleeves for each folded poster out of Mylar, in order to help prevent any further damage and to keep pieces which have ripped off together.
Those sleeved posters will then go into a giant file with all of the other over–sized posters from this collection, and placed safely in the map drawers. Sadly, because these posters are so large and fragile, there is really no way to safely scan them with the resources we have here at the library…. However I was able to take a photo of one of the larger and more delicate posters with my phone, which is the photo below. The poster is from around the turn of the century and advertises an opera titled, “Adriana Lecouvreur”.Â
