On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 17:25, Curt Vendel wrote:
> Anyone hear have good experience in the preservation of old Newspaper
> articles to keep the paper from becoming too yellowed and brittle??? I
> have a large collection of Atari related newspaper articles that I have on
> file and while I keep them out of light and in plastic magazine covers they
> are slowly but surely succumbing to yellowing and I am concerned they will
> dry out, become brittle and so forth.... any help would be appreciated.
>
In my genealogy hobby (and in my wife's scrapbooking hobby) this is a
major concern. The yellowing is caused by various acids used in the
manufacturing of the paper. The only real way to prevent yellowing is
to use acid free paper and ink. Unfortunately, newspapers do not do
this. The best you can do is to keep them out of the light. I would
also recommend going to a scrapbook store and purchase archival quality
plastic covers instead of plain old plastic magazine covers.
One thing I did with a one hundred and fifty year old family bible was
to photograph the family record pages using using a Minox-B camera
(1960's movie spy camera) and Agfapan black and white film. The
negatives will keep almost forever and I can make new prints whenever I
need to.
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Christopher L McNabb
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Received on Sun Nov 10 2002 - 16:56:01 GMT