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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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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 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 Methods’ Easiest & Most Versatile Archival Storage Solution The photo above shows a variety of different antique images & artifacts—similar to some of the kinds of materials you might have—that are featured in a current book project. Placed together like this they may seem like an organizational & archival […]
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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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