Caring for your keepsakes

Submitted photoHoward Sutcliffe, principal conservator for River Region Costume and Textile Conservation, will share tips for preserving, maintaining, and storing family’s treasures Saturday, September 7 at the Thomasville History Center.

The Thomasville History Center wants to help you learn how to care for your keepsakes. The Center has invited conservator Howard Sutcliffe to share tips for preserving, maintaining, and storing your family’s treasures. On Saturday, September 7, Sutcliffe will present a brief lecture on the best methods for at-home conservation and his recommendations for how to put those lessons into practice with your own heirlooms. The lecture will begin at 10 a.m. 

Following the lecture, a separate collection consultation will be hosted. This part of the program will require advance registration. Each registrant will have a five-minute consultation with Sutcliffe to discuss an item of their choosing which they will bring in. Consultation registration will be $15 for current members and $20 for non-members. All attendees are welcome to stay for the consultations. Neither the Thomasville History Center nor Mr. Sutcliffe will provide appraisals on people’s personal property.

The History Center asks that you bring smaller, easily transportable items for your consultation. Items like family bibles, papers, fabrics, or small decorative pieces are most appropriate. Large furnishings or paintings are not suitable for this program.  

Sutcliffe is the principal conservator for River Region Costume and Textile Conservation. His private practice is based in Alabama and Florida’s Gulf Coast, where he provides collection management advice and conservation treatment services for individual and institutional clients throughout the United States.  

The Thomasville History Center was formed in 1952 and opened a museum within the Flowers-Roberts House in 1972.  Since 1972, the Thomasville History Center’s collections have grown to include more than 500,000 artifacts and archival materials and eight historic structures. The History Center, in partnership with the state of Georgia, also operates the historic Lapham-Patterson House. Its board, staff, and growing membership invite you to join them in their dedication to ensuring that the appreciation of the area’s unique history remains an intrinsic and unbroken thread connecting the past and future through settings that advance its story.   

Find the Thomasville History Center on Instagram and Facebook using @thomasvillehistory to follow daily updates on current programs, research projects, and images from its photographic archives. For more information, please visit www.thomasvillehistory.org or call (229) 226-7664. 

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