The HRZ archives of conservation-restoration documentation show the continuity from 1916 till the present day. A Zagreb’s restorer Ferdo Goglia started with a consistent documentation of the condition of paintings and restoration treatments in detail. His documentation was based on consistent written records but Goglia used photography
and diagrams whenever he considered them as necessary illustration tools. By the end of his working life, i.e. 1941, Goglia treated and
documented 1792 paintings. The regulations on the maintenance of records relating to conservation-restoration works in Croatia were passed by authorites in Vienna in 1853. The enactment of these regulations was not encouraged by the restoration experts themselves, but its reasons lied in the intention of the state authorities to monitor restorations and state expenses. Consequently, these records only sometimes present the state of preservation or treatment proposals in detail. According to the literature, the first professional guidelines for conservationrestoration
documenting were published in the journal Museoin in 1932, while the authoritative Ruhemann’s and Stout’s articles were published
in the journal Technical Studies in 1934 and 1935. However, the maintenance of such documentation was not obligatory part of the discipline until the mid sixties of the 20th century. Looking at Goglia’s
documentation in wider context it is possible to conclude that his documentation is ahead of his time. In 1942 Goglia’s successor Zvonimir Wyroubal continued with the consistent maintenance of conservation-restoration documentation. From the beginning Wyroubal used typewriter for writing documentation. In 1942 he organised an archive of documentation Þ les and an archive of documentation photographs
