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Samuel Yellin Historic Tool & Graphic Preservation Project |
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Samuel Yellin went through several permutations before he built his Arch Street shop in Philadelphia. His first business name was Industrial Ornamental, this was followed by Samuel Yellin Art Metal which, in turn, became Samuel Yellin Metal Worker. This last title expanded into Samuel Yellin Metalworkers, which stood until his granddaughter, Clare Yellin, closed his shop in 1992. These graphics are a series of fragments from the oldest existing Yellin drawings. These fragile, crumbling kraft-paper drawings were aquired by George Dixon (from Ms Yellin) in the early 1990's. They have been digitized and restored through the efforts and expense of the Historic Ironwork Fund and a selection is displayed here. This is the first that these images have been seen in almost 100 years. |
Door latch, pierced and chased. |
Hinge finial, pierced and chased. |
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Door handle drawing, c.1912 |
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Door handle drawing as restored |
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The preservation process starts with a high-res scan of the fragments. |
The scanned image is 'cleaned' digitally. This removes 95% of the darkness which is a result of age and the sooty environment the drawings resided in for almost 100 years, |
Where possible, missing elements are reproduced by 'mirroring' the remaining image. This process allows a cut-and-paste repair job on a symmetrical drawing. |
When a part is completely gone, where possible, a section of another, very similar drawing from the same job is 'cloned', sized and fitted, to the damaged image. |
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