Tag: preservation

  • Preserve Your Treasures: How To Store Your Photographs

    Preserve Your Treasures: How To Store Your Photographs

    Smithsonian Archives Conservation Fellow, Anna, describes how to store your photographs for safe-keeping. This is a follow-up to the video on how to safely remove photographs from magnetic, or “sticky” albums. For more archival tips and stories, visit http://blog.photography.si.edu. For resources on materials for storing your photographs, visit the Museum Conservation Institute – http://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/supplier.html. Intro…

  • 360 Degree Photography and Interactive Web Display

    360 Degree Photography and Interactive Web Display

    Demonstration of digitizing and presenting artifacts with the method of 360 degree photography and interactive web display. This video is created by Leif Eric Johnson, digital coordinator at Marriott Library, University of Utah, May 2013. Original source

  • Photography Archive Conservation

    Photography Archive Conservation

    An interview with the paper and photographic conservator Susie Clark. She shows some examples of the materials she encounters in archives and the situations that typically cause the deterioration of photographs and negatives. Most major archives have now been visited by a conservator and few now believe that digitization will replace the originals that archives…