There is a reason these top-of-line archival boxes are called Museum Cases. Should you walk into practically any major museum, archive, or gallery you will…
Photographer Sara Lyons presented a proposal to Historic Northampton, a historical society in western Massachusetts. Her project involved researching information on local homes in Northampton…
If you’ve taken the correct steps to archivally store your artwork, photographs, family history artifacts, and collections can you locate a specific item when you…
This ledger dates from 1832—when Andrew Jackson was President and Abraham Lincoln was only 23 years old! It has been in the owner’s family for…
We all have old film negatives—either in our family archives or as part of our photographic portfolios—that often come in a variety of shapes and…
The other day I was prepping a post on the Archival Methods Twitter feed and I noticed a tweet regarding The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia…
Let’s take a look at the ways old photos of your family’s homes can help you identify and visualize your family history, while providing clues…
How to Document Your Old Photographs This blog post outlines best practices for safely writing on photographs and archival sleeves and storage enclosures. Documenting your…
This large albumen print is mounted onto cardboard that is definitely not acid-free, and to make matters worse it was framed—for over a century—in a…
Our USB & Memory Card Storage Kit is a safe, archival solution for organizing and storing your USB flash drives (also known as thumb drives)…