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When I'm teaching my Life Writing classes, I always spend time giving my student the following advice - "Don't handle pictures or paper that you want to preserve with your bare hands. The oils in your fingers are toxic enough so that the paper will deteriorate more quickly than you want them to."
When I'm teaching my Life Writing classes, I always spend time giving my student the following advice - "Don't handle pictures or paper that you want to preserve with your bare hands. The oils in your fingers are toxic enough so that the paper will deteriorate more quickly than you want them to."
I recommend the following books, available on Amazon.com for little money, to advise folks on the subject:
1) A Preservation Guide Saving the Past and the Present for the Future by Barbara Seagraves; publ. by Ancestry.com
2) An Ounce of Preservation A Guide to the Care of Papers and Photographs by Craig Tuttle; publ. by Rainbow Books
3) Saving Stuff How To Care For and Preserve Your Collectibles, Heirlooms, and Other Prized Possessions by Don Williams and Louisa Jagger; publ. by Simon and Schuster. He's the Senior Conservator of the Smithsonian. This is more comprehensive than anyone needs, but the section on photographs is really good.
These are the essentials. I'm sure there are others.
Thanks again,
Joan
One way to at least have pictures is to put that information of CD, DVD, zip drives, jump drives, whatever modern technology there is and put it in a safe. Recognizing that technology will change but there will always be someone out there keeping the old technology and selling a conversion service.
With today's technology it's easier to share information with family and friends and to reduplicate if necessary. I encourage it. The bad things about cyberspace are that you have to pay a service to keep that information.
I also think that you can make copies of photos and documents and share them with members of your family who live in different parts of the country.
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