how to store and display photo collection!

[grovb]

I was wandering for pictures of how you guys store and display! Also if you have any tips I'd like to hear them!

thanks,
Brandyn

[TerryG]

I store my postcard-size photos in period albums (bought empty). I am looking for a suitable (empty) album to fit the large photos I also have.

[R MICHAEL]

Brandyn, I store all my loose photos in mylar sleeves, such as the ones for trading cards. All my sleeves are in large binders to protect and keep them together.

Merry Christmas! Mike

I was wandering for pictures of how you guys store and display! Also if you have any tips I'd like to hear them!

thanks,
Brandyn

[grovb]

thats what I was thinking of doing wanted to see the options!

thanks for ideas,
Brandyn

Brandyn, I store all my loose photos in mylar sleeves, such as the ones for trading cards. All my sleeves are in large binders to protect and keep them together.

Merry Christmas! Mike

[CarJon]

I store most of my large photos (5x7) and up in archival acid free sheets that you can buy from an office supply store and then I keep them in a 3 ring binder. You can look at them all day, every day and if you want to show them to friends it keeps the fingerprints off and very little fear of damaging them...

Rare photos if you have them (autographed high leaders etc.) I get degassed and framed professionally. While expensive, If you want it to last and perserve your investment, (imho) this is the way to go for high end stuff. It also looks good too... If not to rare, I just frame them using acid free materials and UV glass so the light doesn't deteriorate the items further.

I don't buy empty albums and try to make them look period. . . That is just me, others might and that is a choice each has to make.

I like the three ring binders because I can show them to people.

CarJon

[Michael Fay]

could you explain degassing?

Hello CarJon ,I just read your advice on degassing photos. Could you briefly explain this? Who provides such a service? idea of costs? I know nothing about care of photos, as I am only getting into TR photos. I have avidly followed the latest care of paper ephemera. I only use high end comic book Acid free Mylar bags and acid/lignin free archival boards for backing of my SS newspapers and nazi magazines. They are more trust worthy than the generic acid free stuff, as the comic book world(of which I was involved since child hood) is more intense about preserving and reversing acids slow destruction than any collecting group I know of. I especially suggest you check out BCE /Bill Cole enterprises, inc. at www.bcemylar.com Their products are an eye opener as to taking care of this old stuff we collect
Thanks, Michael Fay

[CarJon]

Hello CarJon ,I just read your advice on degassing photos. Could you briefly explain this? Who provides such a service? idea of costs? I especially suggest you check out BCE /Bill Cole enterprises, inc. at www.bcemylar.com Their products are an eye opener as to taking care of this old stuff we collect
Thanks, Michael Fay

Here is a good article on preserving photos: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6662/printable.html

here is a better one from the library of congress on all different types of paper (photos, books, manuscripts etc.):

http://www.loc.gov/preserv/pubscare.html

Here is from our aussie brothers down under:

http://amol.org.au/recollections/1/3/01.htm

here is an explation on the degassing:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981msfc.reptR....H

I will have to find a better site later and get back to you. I will have to ask the conservator, degassing may not be the right term....

more later. . .

CarJon<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

[Michael Fay]

thanks CarJon for photo care info

Hello CarJon and much thanks for all the (overwhelming and alarming) information you graciously supplied me with. I see I have to print it all out in to hardcopy (making a journal) and read all of it, highlighting what is salient to my situation (and not to expensive, as the "Archivist wash in a airtight canister filled with nitrogen" sure sounds expensive). Also the info on the correct way of cleaning gunk photos off is very helpful!
Thanks, Michael Fay