The Right Stuff and How to Get It – Part I Getting The

Reproductions You Want

Mick Woodcock

ALHFAM Annual Meeting

June 2009

The Right Stuff

Doing The Research

Furnishing Plan

• Justification

• Documentation

• Replication

Justification

• Change

• Budget

• Your Existence

Documentation

• History Recorded

• Examines the History

• Cites Sources

Replication

• Tells What

• Tells Why

• Tells Where

Research

• Structure

• Interior

• Furnishings

Structure

• Who• What• When• Where

Interior

• Structure

• People

• Use

Furnishings

• Objects

• Placement

Differences

• Regional

• Cultural

• Time

Regional

• Clothing

• Tools

• Methods

Cultural

• Clothing

• Equipment

• Methods

Time

• Not too early

• Not too late

• Not too obscure

Getting To Know You

Finding Reputable Vendors

The Options

• Replica Resource List

• Word of Mouth

• Going to Events

Replica Resource List

• Available on line• Comes with no

guarantees as to quality of material

• New vendors added continuously

• Addresses checked yearly

Word of Mouth

• ALHFAM List Serve

• Call your colleagues

• Talk with your volunteers

• Internet

Going to Events

• Time consuming• May be nothing in

your area• You can see what you

are getting• You can look the

vendor in the eye

Can’t Get No Satisfaction

Making What You Need

Getting A Pattern

• Something out of the collection

• Something out of someone else’s collection

• Using a photograph• Using an illustration in

a book

Something Out of The Collection

Someone Else’s Collection

Using a Photograph

Using an Illustration

Getting A Craftsman

• Volunteer

• Staff

• Hiring a local

• Replica Resource List

Getting Materials

• Local

• Replica Resource List

• Custom made hardware