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Photo albums
Home » Genealogy » Pictures and Rare Documents - How to Share them with Future Generations » Photo albumsPosted by Your Guide on July 6, 2006 9:54 PM
Many people only place photos in their photo albums. This makes sense, yes, but photo albums are really for more than just snapshots and photo portraits. Photo albums today are designed to be acid and lignin free, as well as chemically treated to protect your valuable papers (and photos) from the elements. Wind, light, moisture, and heat are all enemies of delicate papers. Photo albums create a safe environment for all our precious papers, not just photos.
Any document that can be inserted in a photo album without the use of adhesive of any kind, and without folding or bending will benefit from being maintained in the album away from the things can harm the paper and its image or information. In order to hold the document in place, there are page protectors, pocket sleeves, and opaque envelopes designed for the protection of valuable papers.
If you wish to be able to see the document while it is in the book, then a transparent protector or sleeve is necessary. If you wish to protect the document from light and other elements while it is in the book, an opaque envelope or sleeve is called for. Watch for plastics that contain chemicals that can harm your documents and for elements that can yellow the original, making it more fragile than before.
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