Dartmouth Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire Mobile Refrigeration Trailer Rental

Salvaging Water-Damaged Historical Materials

The local source article “Salvaging Water-Damaged Historical Materials,” dated August 21, 2024, reports Dartmouth Libraries held flood-damaged Strafford Historical Society materials in Hanover after the July 2023 Vermont floods. Its August 21, 2024 account described 32 diaries and other items placed in frozen storage; stabilization and treatment decisions took most of a year. Workshops in May and June 2024 addressed part of the collection, while some material went to commercial freeze-drying services. We serve Hanover and Lebanon, connecting through Enfield and Canaan, with Lyme, Plainfield and Cornish along the Connecticut River side of the region. The I-89 corridor includes Grantham, Springfield and New London, with Wilmot and Andover farther east. Lake-area coverage reaches Sunapee and Newbury, continuing through Bradford, Sutton and Warner. Claremont and Charlestown anchor the southern river route; Newport connects inland requests from Unity, Goshen, Lempster, Washington and Acworth

Dartmouth’s August 2023 account described seven crates of waterlogged historic books brought back to its conservation lab and held in a commercial-sized freezer. The purpose was to arrest mold growth while conservators decided how to treat them. The August 21, 2024 workshop account illustrates why salvage and treatment need not happen on the same schedule.

For a comparable displaced collection, temporary mobile refrigeration rental could support that intervening holding period under the conservator’s instructions. Discuss the materials selected for freezing, access for batch removal and the treatment destination. Phone +1 (866) 216-4667 24/7 to review those requirements before arranging equipment.