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Archival Mounting: 4 Easy Steps for “Floating” an Image in a Mat One of the more dynamic archival mounting techniques involves “floating” an image in the center of a window mat so that the entire piece can be seen. Here we’re going to cover 4 steps for accomplishing this by using […]
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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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Archival Framing: 4 Steps for Choosing What’s Right for YOU! Some of the colors & profiles of wood & metal frames available for you tochoose from for archival framing projects that YOU can do YOURSELF.(Please click on each image for more information.) The following 4 steps […]
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Preserving Digital Images: Archival Storage & Presentation Solutions For a very long time “standard photograph sizes” (i.e. 4 x 5″ / 8 x 10″ / 11 x 14″ / 16 x 20″ / etc.) dictated the size of archival storage & presentation materials. Yet all this changed with the digital […]
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Archivally Matted Portfolio Prints:Professional Quality…on a Budget! In this true-to-life “case study” we’ll show you how a photographer we know turned this… …into THIS! Photographer Sara Lyons giving an archivally matted portfolio print to a woman whose home Sara was allowed to photograph as part of a larger project. […]
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Archival Accessories For • Photographers & Artists • Genealogists & Family Historians • Collectors of All Kinds While ALL of the museum-quality archival accessories described in this blog are actually used by ALL the different types of individuals […]
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Archival Framing | Part 1 | Replacing an Old Mat & an Old Frame A Case Study in Saving Time & Money! This matted & framed drawing has tons of sentimental value—and tons of problems!This blog will show you how to address similar issues YOU might be facing YOURSELF!(Please click […]
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American Family Archives: Your HOME (& PHOTOS!) as Family History & Genealogy Resource! Left Pix: home at 244 Prospect Street, Northampton, MA, photographed by the Howes Brothers, c.1900(image courtesy of Historic Northampton, Northampton, Massachusetts)Right Pix: the same home photographed in 2017 by Sara Lyons as part of a […]
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4 Do-It-Yourself Steps to Preserve ALL Your Snapshots: SORT / STORE / SCAN / SHARE! Part 1: SORT & STORE So, folks, got any of THESE floating around (see pix below)? (Hint: Snapshots? Negatives? 35mm slides? Old photo postcards? Family […]
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Preserving a Fragile Family Photograph in 3 Easy (Acid-Free!) Steps: 1) Scanning 2) Identifying & Sharing 3) Acid-Free Storage & Display First, a quick one-question pop quiz: So, just WHAT is THIS??? […]
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