BEST PRACTICES

 ARCHIVAL SUPPLY

AAMG’s Second Edition of the Professional Practices for Academic Museums and Gallerie

https://www.aamg-us.org/aamg-published-documents/

HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHY RESEARCH
Cleaning Photographs and negatives ~ best practices
Cased Images
Cartes de Visite
Cabinet Card Photographs
Albums, Bibles, books
Photographica
Stereographs
Postcards
Miscellaneous Materials
Cleaning Photographs and negatives
CLEANING PHOTOGRAPHS ~ utube videos	https://youtu.be/Bv9a6upaK-E
CLEANING PHOTOGRAPHS ~ utube videos	https://agenealogistinthearchives.blogspot.com/?m=1
CLEANING PHOTOGRAPHS ~ utube videos	https://youtu.be/c0RVu02jukU
CLEANING PHOTOGRAPHS ~ sourcing	cleaning Pic 12 cleaner, cotton pads, q-tips, cotton gloves
REPLICATING ~ Scanning/Photograghing/Light box	Scanning quality 72, 300, 600, 1200 dpi. Always save to tiff for best resolution and make a copy to .jpeg
IDENTIFYING ~ online assistance	Genealogy dating
IDENTIFYING ~ Sourcing pencils	Stabilo Pencils are excellent for writing on the backs of plastic-coated photographs and other glossy surfaces such as film, glass, plastic, and metal. They work equally well on paper photos, album pages, and mounted photos.
PAPERS	Arches, Johannot, Marais, Rives
PRESERVATION	https://www.gaylord.com/
CONSERVATION ~ utube videos	https://youtu.be/wDd6iTTA0Tc
CONSERVATION ~ Resources	https://www.gaylord.com/resources-pro
CONSERVATION ~ Resources (see also Professor Tson-Kong (T.K.) Sham  Scientists can now bring lost daguerreotypes back to life.    https://www.uwo.ca/chem//people/faculty/sham.html	https://www.gaylord.com/resources-personal
CONSERVATION ~ Cabinet Cards & Cartes-de-Visite | How to Archivally Preserve Your Family Photographs	https://www.archivalmethods.com/blog/cabinet-cards-carte-de-visite/
STORAGE
STORAGE ~ SOURCING	Archival Companies ~ Gaylord
TRANSPORTING