This post focuses on storing and preserving individual medium format negatives from the early and mid-20th century roll film cameras. Many family collections have these…

Negatives are one of the less stable materials in an archive. Two of the once dominant plastic supports used to make negatives (cellulose nitrate and…

Find out how to properly store newspapers and clippings that you want to save using archival, acid-free, buffered boxes.

Magnetic photo albums are bad for your photographs. Learn why and how to remove the photos and put them into an archival alternative. What is…

This blog post looks at plastic as an element in archival storage. It covers which plastics are archival and which ones are not. We’ll go…

Many people ask us, “how should I store old letters?” There are multiple ways to archivally store letters, photos, and other paper-based items in your…

Birth certificates are important documents that should be preserved. To safely store a birth certificate use acid-free, archival materials. Make a high quality scan of…

One of the first questions we ask our customers to consider when starting their archiving projects is box versus binder. When choosing archival supplies from…

Archival Methods has been an internet-based company since our inception in 2002. We’ve kept our website simple while trying to provide as much useful information…

Museum Solander Cases are our archival version of the classic Solander box, designed in the 18th century by Swedish botanist Daniel Solander.