kathywlsv
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May 10, 2021 0:55:16 GMT
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Post by kathywlsv on May 10, 2021 1:00:17 GMT
I have several of my mothers photo albums from the early 1930s on. The photos are glued, stapled and taped in to construction paper scrapbooks. Some pages have upwards of 15 photos on them. They are glued to both sides of the page. The paper is disintegrating in much of the book. How on earth do I rescue these photos? I’m scanning fast as I can and saving them to family fb pages, but what next? Put the whole untouched page into page protectors? Pry them up?
thanks for ideas.
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Post by mom on May 10, 2021 1:39:00 GMT
Wow! Im jealous that you have so many scrapbooks from long ago. I would probably scan what I could and then use Undu to get the papers separated from the photos. |
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Post by myboysnme on May 11, 2021 0:10:08 GMT
kathywlsv This is kind of a specialty of mine and I recently posted about my mother's scrapbook redo. I used to teach about photo and memorabilia preservation of old and antique ephemera. First of all, I am offering advice from the preservation perspective. I would invest in what used to be called archival mist. Cover each photo with a piece of paper and spray the black pages to stop deterioration. Leave the photos alone. You can scan them but why bother if they are in an album already. Take the string out of the album holding it together, and get reinforcements for the holes. Then put it back together and tighten the book. If there is any cellophane tape, try to remove it. Depending on the size of the pages, it MAY be possible to slide the individual pages into page protectors. But probably not. I really do not like the idea of vintage and antique scrapbooks that are intact being destroyed. They are survivors of the era in which they were put together. I think you will be much happier in the long run to have what your mom put together herself than to take it all apart.
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