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=== Photographs and old documents === | === Photographs and old documents === | ||
If you’re like most people, you’ve taken a lot of family photographs over the years. They may be in an album or thrown in a box to be look at from time to time by the kids. You might also have old family photographs of various ancestors which are in very poor condition. <br><br> | If you’re like most people, you’ve taken a lot of family photographs over the years. They may be in an album or thrown in a box to be look at from time to time by the kids. You might also have old family photographs of various ancestors which are in very poor condition. <br><br> | ||
Alone with photographs, you might have some old letters or journals written by family members or even ancestors. And you probably have various miscellaneous documents like birth, marriage and death certificates. Here are some suggestions on how they should be stored and/or displayed | Alone with photographs, you might have some old letters or journals written by family members or even ancestors. And you probably have various miscellaneous documents like birth, marriage and death certificates. Here are some suggestions on how they should be stored and/or displayed | ||
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*Display copies of your photographs, not the originals. Store the originals under archival conditions as described above. Pictures will fade in sun light and even under the light from a light bulb. | *Display copies of your photographs, not the originals. Store the originals under archival conditions as described above. Pictures will fade in sun light and even under the light from a light bulb. | ||
*Don’t mount your photographs under glass without a air space provided at the margins of at least two layers of mat board. Photographs will stick to glass in time and can’t be removed without destroying them. | *Don’t mount your photographs under glass without a air space provided at the margins of at least two layers of mat board. Photographs will stick to glass in time and can’t be removed without destroying them. | ||
*Use “museum board” for | *Use “museum board” for matting material. | ||
*Attached your photographs to the matt board with linen tape, not scotch tape or masking tape. | *Attached your photographs to the matt board with linen tape, not scotch tape or masking tape. | ||
*Make sure that the tape covers the entire length of each side of the photograph. | *Make sure that the tape covers the entire length of each side of the photograph. | ||
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=== Preserving photographs forever === | === Preserving photographs forever === | ||
Scan in all photographs and burn on to a DVD. Now the technology of preserving photograph will change over the years but one thing is for sure these technologies will only increase the ability to | Scan in all photographs and burn on to a DVD. Now the technology of preserving photograph will change over the years but one thing is for sure these technologies will only increase the ability to preserve or enhance your photographs so they will be available for future generations to see. For a fuller discussion on this topic see [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Personal_Archiving_White_Paper_8_Oct_2010.pdf Personal Archiving White Pager]<br><br> | ||
Include narration as well on the DVD to describe the picture. Tell the date it was taken, the people in it, what they were doing if not evident, and anything else you feel that the viewer should know about.<br><br>There is nothing more frustrating than to have a family photograph and not know who is in it, or when or where it was taken. | Include narration as well on the DVD to describe the picture. Tell the date it was taken, the people in it, what they were doing if not evident, and anything else you feel that the viewer should know about.<br><br>There is nothing more frustrating than to have a family photograph and not know who is in it, or when or where it was taken. | ||
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