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Joseph E. Evans letters, 1935-1954

1944-10-17 Joseph Evans to John & Mary Evans Page 2

three originals of the copy on a special typewriter I dug up which had 18 point type. We (myself and one of my Wacs) finished that at 5 o'clock Sunday morning. At 9 o'clock Sunday morning my photographic Wac and I went to Hill Field (30 miles from Salt Lake) to mount the copy and the pictures. We worked straight through from 10:30 that morning until 11 yesterday morning, then brought the three books into Salt Lake, had them bound and showed them to Mr Gordon. The book is 14" x 16" and is 71 pages long, with a picture section in the middle. It attempts to be a basic survey telling you anything you want to know about the exhibit. When I got back to Salt Lake I naturally had a million things to do, so I didn't get any sleep until midnight (got on the train at 11 pm) - 40 hours without a second's rest. What took us so long was the mounting of it. Every typewritten page and every picture had to be dry - mounted on mounting paper. I don't know if you are familiar with the dry mounting process: you put a piece of dry-mounting tissue on the [track?] of the typewriter page or picture: the tissue is gummed on both sides and you make it stick by going over with tacking iron (in this way fixing it so that the tissue exactly, [enter?] the page or picture - then you center the page-plus-tissue on the mounting paper and stick it in a dry-mounting press, which is [oven?], hot and melts the gum on the tissue. When you take it out the page is perfectly flat - it look as though the typewritten page was part of the mounting paper. Imagine going - through that for 114 pictures (3 sets), 108 captions

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three originals of the copy on a special typewriter I dug up which had 18 point type. We (myself and one of my Wacs) finished that at 5 o'clock Sunday morning. At 9 o'clock Sunday morning my photographic Wac and I went to Hill Field (30 miles from Salt Lake) to mount the copy and the pictures. We worked straight through from 10:30 that morning until 11 yesterday morning, then brought the three books into Salt Lake, had them bound and showed them to Mr Gordon. The book is 14" x 16" and is 71 pages long, with a picture section in the middle. It attempts to be a basic survey telling you anything you want to know about the exhibit. When I got back to Salt Lake I naturally had a million things to do, so I didn't get any sleep until midnight (got on the train at 11 pm) - 40 hours without a second's rest. What took us so long was the mounting of it. Every typewritten page and every picture had to be dry - mounted on mounting paper. I don't know if you are familiar with the dry mounting process: you put a piece of dry-mounting tissue on the [track?] of the typewriter page or picture: the tissue is gummed on both sides and you make it stick by going over with tacking iron (in this way fixing it so that the tissue exactly, [enter?] the page or picture - then you center the page-plus-tissue on the mounting paper and stick it in a dry-mounting press, which is [oven?], hot and melts the gum on the tissue. When you take it out the page is perfectly flat - it look as though the typewritten page was part of the mounting paper. Imagine going - through that for 114 pictures (3 sets), 108 captions