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Looking after your old photos

Posted by: Blog Administrator on Apr 19, 2011

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Recently I gave a talk to Devizes Camera Club on the care and preservation of old photographs. While preparing this I realised how bad our centrally heated homes are for storage of this material compared with the old days of one two open fires and perhaps one electric fire switched on for going to bed! The required temperature and relative humidity varies according to the type of material but for general collections, as we have at the History Centre, we keep;

 

Black and white materials at 12°C and 35% relative humidity

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