Preservation Lab Technicians
Photograph: Josh Valcarcel01The technicians at the National Personnel Records Center work to carefully assess and preserve documents damaged in the fire so that any information can be gleaned from them. Here, Ashley Cox uses a humidity chamber to relax curled documents back to flat without stressing or breaking the fibers.
Photograph: Josh Valcarcel02Carol Berry examines brittle records to make determinations before releasing the documents to other technicians.
Photograph: Josh Valcarcel03Shannon Mills works with documents in the Decontamination Lab.
Photograph: Josh Valcarcel04Shante Hampton, customer emergency response team member for the National Personnel Records Center.
Photograph: Josh Valcarcel05Stephanie Casey, preservation technician, working with documents in the Decontamination Lab.
Photograph: Josh Valcarcel06Thomas Schmidt at work in the Dry Lab.
Photograph: Josh Valcarcel07
Photograph: Josh Valcarcel08Valerie Helton uses infrared imaging to capture the different depths of the ink and paper.
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