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- From: davidson@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: soc.roots
- Subject: Re: Preserving Newspaper Clippings
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.155459.10496@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:54:59 GMT
- References: <Pine.3.05.9301190845.A2024-9100000@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu> <1993Jan20.210025.15377@cs.ucf.edu>
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- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- In article <1993Jan20.210025.15377@cs.ucf.edu>, wordproc@cs.ucf.edu (Dolores-Laura-Susan) writes:
- > I have several old yellowed and crumbling newspaper clippings
- > giving detailed info about weddings, births, deaths, etc.
- > Newspaper stock contains acid, and I know my clippings will continue
- > to deteriate. Storing the clippings in acid-free archival quality
- > envelopes will help, of course. Is there a way to neutralize the
- > acid content to improve longevity? How about old photographs?
- >
- > Information on this would surely be of interest to this group.
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- I work at an archives and the standard procedure is to simply to photocopy
- the clipping onto high-quality bond paper and dispose of the original. The
- clipping itself has no intrinsic value, it is the information that you want
- to preserve.
-
- To my knowledge, there is no way to preserve the newspaper itself.
-
- As for photographs, yes, we store them individually in acid-free envelopes.
-
- Jonathan Davidson
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- DAVIDSON@AC.DAL.CA
- Dalhousie University
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Canada
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