Wheeling Artisan Center

The Wheeling Artisan Center will clean, catalog, and rehouse documents and artifacts in the LaBelle Nail Works Collection. This collection is a high priority of the center due to the importance of the collection in research on local industrial history, national architecture and immigration history. During the project, selected items will be cleaned of over a century of factory dust and grime. Condition assessments will be recorded and collected for future reference and to assess and prioritize conservation needs. Items in the collection will be cataloged and rehoused in archival quality storage to ensure their preservation. The records will be available for public use through the center's online collections database.