CSPAN3 Oglebay Mansion Museum January 18, 2015
They will be perfectly fine for many, many years. Beginning in the 1890s, there was a concerted effort to find and collect West Virginias remaining civil war battle flags. During that decade they collected these flags. At the time, they did not know how to preserve them. Some of them used chemicals that were detrimental to the flags. But for over six decades these flags set in dark storage. They did not see light at all until we could figure out how to conserve them, how to repair them, and how to put them in these climate controlled cases. So, they have been conserved. They have been restored...
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