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In late June, we embarked on a move to consolidate all of our business operations under one roof. Our expanded space keeps us in Rochester, and will allow for greater capacity to develop new products and explore new collaborations with other firms. Not our first rodeo Archival Methods has quite a history of moves; hopefully […]
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American Alliance of Museums: What It’s All About OK, so just WHAT IS the American Alliance of Museums (AAM)??? Well, as the name suggests, it’s an association of UFO / Area 51 conspiracy theorists who run around with tinfoil hats all day long tellin’ anyone who’ll listen […]
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Have you ever thought to yourself: “So, just WHAT ARE all those mysterious icons at the bottom of each Archival Methods website page???” To understand the value of today’s need for quality assurance and consumer protection, one can look back to an earlier time. Remember back in […]
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A great many different types of important photographs, prints, documents, books, collections, fabrics and family artifacts can be organized and archivally preserved by individuals working at home using a variety of archival materials, protective enclosures, and acid-free storage boxes (see our richly illustrated blog postings for all sorts of informative how-to info). Yet if you wish to repair or conserve very old […]
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Well-preserved signed documents, family records, photos and other artifacts provide a fascinating window onto the past, both in the here-and-now present and for future generations to come. In 2014 the National Archives showcased a rich collection of signatures of notable leaders and figures from U.S. history. The 10-month exhibit entitled “Making Their Mark: Stories […]
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At a visitor’s first glance, the contents and displays of typical museums and archives may make it seem as if everything has always been there, frozen in time and space, for dozens—if not hundreds—of years. This is actually almost never the case, as museums are usually quite active, dynamic, busy environments. Museums […]
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It’s confession time. I have a MAJOR holiday regret: I “coulda / shoulda / woulda,” but I didn’t. And now I can’t. I’m talking about learning more about my family history as recorded in all those hundreds—if not thousands—of family photo albums, snapshots, and scrapbooks that are part of the family archive […]
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