Preserving Newspaper.

From: Curt vendel <cvendel_at_att.net>
Date: Fri Nov 15 20:35:00 2002

Great info, thanks Chris.


Curt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher McNabb" <cmcnabb_at_4mcnabb.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: Preserving Newspaper.


> 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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