Preserving Newspaper.

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 17:25, Curt Vendel wrote: > Anyone hear have good experience in the preservation of old Newspaper > articles to keep the paper from becoming too yellowed and brittle??? I > have a large collection of Atari related newspaper articles that I have

> file and while I keep them out of light and in plastic magazine covers

> are slowly but surely succumbing to yellowing and I am concerned they

> dry out, become brittle and so forth.... any help would be

In my genealogy hobby (and in my wife's scrapbooking hobby) this is a major concern. The yellowing is caused by various acids used in the manufacturing of the paper. The only real way to prevent yellowing is to use acid free paper and ink. Unfortunately, newspapers do not do this. The best you can do is to keep them out of the light. I would also recommend going to a scrapbook store and purchase archival quality plastic covers instead of plain old plastic magazine covers. One thing I did with a one hundred and fifty year old family bible was to photograph the family record pages using using a Minox-B camera (1960's movie spy camera) and Agfapan black and white film. The negatives will keep almost forever and I can make new prints whenever I need to. -- Christopher L McNabb Operating Systems Analyst Email: cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net Virginia Tech ICBM: 37.1356N 80.4272N GMRS: WPSR255 ARS: N2UX Grid Sq: EM97SD