Re: Glass Negative Help Needed - a bit OT

[Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>]

Make sure they are warm and dry

Carefully unwrap each image

I was fortunate to find a metal medical file that is perfect for  
glass slides. Separates each slide by 1/4" and has "slats" to hold  
each slide

One could craft one out of  KD hardwood wood with archival glue and  
no varnish


On Nov 24, 2008, at 11:48 AM, cadunn wrote:

> Hi--
> I'm one of two initial members of the fledgling Fletcher Historical  
> Society in Vermont. (town pop. c. 1000).
>
> Residents have donated enough money to buy some 350 glass negatives  
> all taken of our town and its people between 1899 and 1910. This is  
> the impetus for the society. (They were just found in a barn a few  
> months ago.)
>
> I just came from looking at some of them, and we need to do  
> something fairly quickly. They are each individually wrapped in  
> paper much like newsprint -- some of it actually is newspaper.
>
> I need help figuring out what to get to store these safely as we  
> organize them. They are all 4 x 5. At some point I will be scanning  
> or photographing them all for reference, but townspeople will want  
> prints of some as the years go by.
>
> We want to archivally preserve each in an individual manner, and  
> then put them in archivally safe boxes according to 3 or 4  
> categories that seem to cover most of the images. (We haven't  
> looked at them all as yet.)
>
> The negative storage should be able to have an index label affixed  
> to each so that we can key them with the writing that is currently  
> on their wrapper, and with the index prints that will eventually be  
> produced.
>
> Any and all help will be very much appreciated.
>
> I know of no other group, besides this list, where I can draw upon  
> such a deep well of experience.
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Clair