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Archival Boxes
Document Boxes In Stock
Document Boxes
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Application
Document Boxes are acid-free, lignin-free, buffered storage containers designed for safe, long-term preservation of documents. They combine durability with archival-quality materials to protect your collections from light, dust, and environmental pollutants.
Colors: tan • gray • black (letter size only)
Sizes: for letter and legal size file folders
Store: photographs, genealogy records, important documents, pamphlets, periodicals, and other collectibles
Related Items: Document Storage Kit, File Folders, Document Box Spacers to keep files upright in a partially full box
We have a similar vertical Hinged Lid Box - #02-009 (5-1/2 x 10-1/2 x 8-5/8'' H) - that holds 8 x 10 Envelopes.
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Features
Vertical Storage for organizing and storing letter and legal size documents
One-piece Construction flip-top hinged lid with undercut front panel for safe insertion and removal of documents and fast, convenient file search without removing the contents
Embossed Labeling Areas for consistent placement of adhesive labels or Label Holders
Materials heavyweight archival grade boxboard
Metal Edging provides rigidity and is anti-corrosion treated with a black polyester coating with a wax-free polyester finish on the blind side
Capacity Estimate two reams (1000 sheets) of 20 lb. copy paper fit inside a Document Box. Adding folders and having variations in paper weights will affect how many documents this box will hold. We estimate that it will hold about 500 - 700 pages with folders.
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Specifications
Made in USA with rigorous quality control standards
Interior Dimensions 5 W x 12-1/4 L x 10-3/8'' H - hinge is on long side
Acid-Free - Yes
Lignin-Free - Yes - lignin content is measured by the phloroglucinol test with a Kappa number of 5 or less.
Buffered - Yes - contains a minimum of 3% calcium carbonate (CaCO3) with a pH range 8-9.5
Finish tan with white interior and gray with white interior have smooth plate finish
Finish black with black interior has textured paper laminated on acid-free black core
Board is made from fully bleached, high alpha cellulose pulp. It does not contain any post consumer waste recycled pulp. Paper is free of metal particles, waxes, plasticizers, residual bleach, peroxide, sulfur content is less than 0.0008% reducible sulfur.
Board Weight .056'' thick
P.A.T. gray and tan pass the Photographic Activity Test ISO 18916
P.A.T. black lining papers pass the Photographic Activity Test ISO 18916
Metallic Impurities iron will not exceed 150 ppm and copper will not exceed 6 ppm
Sizing alkaline or neutral sizing are used. No alum rosin or rosin sizing are used.
Optical Brighteners - No, none are used
Dyes are light-fast and non-bleeding
Surface of the paper is smooth and free from knots, shives, and abrasive particles
Metal Edging 10 mil black plate cold-rolled carbon steel, face-polyester based paint, back-polyester coating
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Resources
Looking for a specific box size? Box Sizes PDF
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