Museum training session –

Muriel Carbiener (2nd from right) from Bend, Oregon training staff and volunteers at the Oliver Museum in techniques of cleaning, dating, and preserving clothing from more than a 100 years for future viewing.

Carbiener is a volunteer textile conservation specialist and Oregon Trail aficionado.

Pictured Bryonie Mahe, Collections Manager, Sharon Ewin, Torrey Allen, both volunteers, Sue Morhun, ODHS Chair and Tracy Johnson, Community Heritage Manager.

The dress being worked on was a “presentation gown” from the early part of the last century (British) recovered from Fairview. This type of dress complete with a train was for formal presentations in front of royalty.