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This guest blog about tackling a project to organize family photos was written by InstaRestoration. Who doesn’t need to organize family photos? Often, there is little or no information to go along with photos we have inherited. While the images are certainly interesting, you may not know when these pictures were taken or even who […]
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This blog was written for the Association of Personal Photo Organizers. Archival Methods is an APPO industry partner, and a sponsor of their annual Save Your Photos Month. Why do these terms matter? Photo-safe. Archival. Acid-free. These are just some of the terms that are used when describing products in the photo industry…but what […]
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Old Photos & Heirlooms: Safe Alternatives to Basement & Attic Storage Archival Binder Pages & Collector Grade Binders are perfect for elegantly storing old photos on shelvesin your home or office, avoiding the many risks associated with storage in basements & attics. (Please click on each image for more […]
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Scanning Photographs: Why these 8 Steps for Family Archiving are Important! The answers to the questions posed in the photo above are in fact some of the most important things you can do when it comes to family history . . . . . . scanning photographs, old & new […]
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Archival Binders: NEW Designs from Archival Methods Our NEW Binder with Tab & Slipcase (on left) and Collector Grade Legal Binders (on right).(Please click on each image for more information.) Archival Methods is pleased to announce the availability of two newly designed archival binders: • Binder with Tab & […]
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Tintypes: 5 Steps to Archivally Preserve YOUR Family Photographs Have you ever wondered about those curious photographs in your family archive that appear to be printed on a thin sheet of metal? Well, these are tintypes, a popular 19th-century photographic process—actually on a piece of lacquered iron, not […]
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Cabinet Cards & Cartes-de-Visite: 5 Steps to Archivally Preserve YOUR Family Photographs Two of the most popular forms of 19th century photography you may have in your family archive are cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite (the latter is French for “visiting cards,” and will be shortened to cartes throughout […]
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Light Damage: Protecting Framed Artwork / Photographs / Collections While in the midst of working on blogs covering a completely different topic, we recently came across truly stunning examples of the significant & immediate threat caused by light damage. We’re sharing some of the photos we took of this light damage in the […]
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Preserving Photographs:5 Steps to Rescue Snapshots from Old Family Displays Recently I was asked for advice from a friend who had come across a forgotten example of what is today perhaps the most common occurrence of “tape on your photographs”—the family snapshot display (see photos above). […]
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Archival Storage & Presentation:Our Top 10 Most Popular Blogs of 2017 Here is Archival Methods’ list of the 10 most popular blogs we’ve posted this past year in our 6 archival storage & presentation categories. (see photos above). Whether you’re a photographer / an artist / a collector […]
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