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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:57:19 EST
- Reply-To: Dick and Jill Miller <dmiller@IM.LCS.MIT.EDU>
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- From: Dick and Jill Miller <dmiller@IM.LCS.MIT.EDU>
- Subject: Preserving newspaper clippings
- Comments: To: roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu
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- Dear Rootslers:
-
- There is always interest in this group about how to preserve various items
- and particularly newspaper clippings which have a very short life. Here is
- a method I found in "File...Don't Pile!" by Pat Dorff, (1983,1986, St.
- Martin's Press, NY.) On page 132 she details the following method which
- she says was suggested by 'experts at the National Archives':
-
- "1. Mix 1 tablespoon of magnesium carbonate and a quart of club soda in a
- large platic dish.
-
- "2. Sandwich the clippings between two pieces of screen or Pellon, a
- material sold in most fabric stores. Soak for thirty minutes.
-
- "3. Mop up excess liquid with blotting paper and allow to dry overnight on
- more blotting paper.
-
- "4. Store clippings in a well-sealed flat plastic bag. They shoud keep
- forever."
-
- ---end of quote---
-
- After all the discussion on this and similar subjects last year I still
- have some questions, like, what kind of plastic bag? and, where does one get
- magnesium carbonate, and blotting paper? I haven't seen blotting paper for
- years. Could one use paper towels instead?
-
- But there is the quote, for what it's worth. I won't have time to pursue
- this for a while, but I'm sure that the group would like to hear from
- anyone who does.
-
- Happy rooting.
-
- --Jill
-
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