September 7, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsSlideshow: Installation of door from Frank Shay’s Greenwich Village bookshop The two exhibitions The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920-1925 and Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored are now open at the Ransom Center. In the image gallery below, staff members install the bookshop door in the galleries on Friday. Please click on the thumbnails below to view full-size images. Faulk assembles the bolts between the two sheets of Plexiglas that will hold the Greenwich Village bookshop door. Preparator Wyndell Faulk attaches the sheet of Plexiglas to the base of the pedestal that was built to display the door from Frank Shay’s Greenwich Village bookshop.</ Wright attaches wire to the ceiling to help support and reinforce the Plexiglas panels on the pedestal. Exhibition Conservator and Head of Exhibition Services Ken Grant, Faulk, and Chief Preparator John Wright assemble the custom-designed pedestal. Faulk covers the sliding track with a panel that matches the custom-painted pedestal. The base was designed and fabricated by Faulk. Faulk and Grant slide the door between the two panels of Plexiglas. The Greenwich Village book shop door is on display through January 22 as part of “The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920-1925.”
