Yesterday in the conservation lab it was all about bedbugs and sticky Star Wars toys. Today it’s all about panoramic photographs in need of rehousing!
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This box just got delivered to preservation today. What a great way to start the week! T_T (The sign on the box says “Contains remnants of bugs, possibly ticks”, and inside was a plastic bag with several books in it that were apparently full of (dead, I hope?) bugs when they were turned back in to […]
Hi! A good rule of thumb for storage of paper items is that paper is the best way to store paper. Of course, you want to use very high quality paper filing supplies, so look for words like “buffered” or “acid-free” on the box. I highly recommend buffered paper folders to store the kind of […]
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The “uh oh” shelf
I think most archives have a shelf like this, for those things that make you go “Uh oh!”. In this case, it’s a couple of boxes of moldy/gross photographic negatives.
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Oh my god I just made a protective plastic L-sleeve for a 5.5 feet (1.7 meters) long panoramic photograph and I just need to sit down for a bit now and catch my breath. It is longer than I am tall. That is a 15 inch ruler for scale, by the way. Did I mention […]
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I had to leave these photographs in the humidification chamber (aka our paper washing sink) overnight because they were so curled. As a result, I had several nightmares about what I would find today when I returned to work this morning. Here they are: 1) Someone came in and stole all 30 of the photographs […]
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Spot the irony! This one is especially for digitalproductionunit Oh and look, someone digitized it and put it up online!
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This black and white silver-gelatin photograph is showing “silver mirroring”, which is when the silver particles in the image degrade. From certain viewing angles, the mirroring is not noticeable, but from other angles it is VERY noticeable. This particular photograph was dry-mounted to a piece of foam-core board, and also matted, both of which probably contributed […]
These are my notes, paired with some of the images I used on my slides, that I used to give my presentation as a panel member at the Library Collections Care Discussion Group during the 2015 AIC Annual Meeting. This talk will be a balance of “how to” and “why”. There are many other resources […]
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Carefully opening a sealed commemorative box of Kellogg’s corn flakes in the conservation lab. The emptied box will go live a happy life in one of our Archives collections. No, I’m not going to taste the cereal… 😛 (Source: https://vine.co/)