Preserving Newspaper.

From: harsha godavari <h.godavari_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Sun Nov 10 21:01:05 2002

I would lok at putting them on a CD. Most newsprint is not made from
"acid-free" paper. Therefore it will crumble to powder in a few years.
Librarians go through extrordinary procedures to remove acidity but only
for some select, rare books. If you want go that route ask in the state
archives or a big university library.

Regards
Harsha Godavari

Christopher McNabb wrote:
>
> 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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