Re: preservation of old negatives

<sferox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Dear All,
> We I am working in a archive in Nepal. Our archive is 
> doing
> digitization of the old photos and negatives of 19th and 
> early 20th
> century. We are facing the problems with the negatives as 
> some of the
> negatives are wrapped in the ordinary paper which has 
> caused sticking
> of emulsion of the negatives with the paper. If we try to 
> remove it
> mechanically in dry or after moistening, the emulsion get 
> sticked in
> the paper and the negatives gets spoiled. I kindly request 
> you all to
> share if you have any idea how to remove the paper from 
> the negative.
>
> Sajan Subedi
> Reprographer
> Nepal
>

    Try contacting the United States Library of Congress or 
the Getty Museum both of which have experts in photo 
preservation, contact information for both is on the web. 
The problem you describe is a common one and not easy to 
fix.

Also look at the Conservation On Line site at: 
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

The American Institute for the Preservation of Historic and 
Artistic Works at:
http://aic.stanford.edu/

The archives of the journal published by the AIC is at:
http://aic.stanford.edu/jaic/

But I strongly advise talking directly to an experienced 
conservator.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]