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Learn about the care of paper collections, with Lorraine Finch ACR and PEL.
From what causes damage to your paper collections? whether they are photographs, documents, artwork or other learn more about caring for your collection. If you would like to be notified of future webinars, please sign up for our email newsletter here.
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Webinar recorded 15/04/21.
This article covers the photographic processes that you are most likely to find in your collection. As you read through you'll notice that details of how a photograph deteriorates such as fading and yellowing are included, this is because how a photograph ages and falls apart can be unique to a process, and so provides valuable information to help identify the process.
If you don't know what you have, how can you look after it? Identification of the photographic process will aid your decision on what storage materials to use, how to handle your photographs and what environmental conditions to keep them in.
Read part one here and learn more about how you can start identifying your photographs.
Those who know both materials will know that they are distinctly different, yet both are used for many of the same applications, and in this lies the core of the issue - When you have two materials which are so different, which one should you use?
Mould spores are all around us all the time. Mould spores can lay dormant for long periods, just waiting for the conditions to be right before they can grow. This is the time to check your precious family heirlooms and treasured collections for mould.
There are records which speak of the use of water for magnification as far back as 4000 years ago in both ancient China and Greece. A lot's changed the flexible nature in which a digital microscope, with the various mounting options, can be used is ideal for conservation, especially for field work or objects that are too large to move.
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