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Re: Deteriorating newspaper clippings



Photocopying is the best way to go.  If you weren't planning on keeping the originals, repairs with regular mending tape (like Highland 6500), burnished with a bone folder would give camera-quality results.  Since you anticipate a preservation project in the near future, I am assuming that you want to keep this 'stuff' intact.  You could use archival tape (like Filmoplast), but of course while it's acid free, it is not fully transparent.  Another approach for copying would be sandwiching the materials in Mylar folders.  You can arrange the pieces without taping them together, and thanks to the electrostatic properties of Mylar, they should stay pretty well put long enough to get a copy.  A word about Mylar: don't store newspaper clippings in Mylar unless they have been de-acidified and/or have a buffered paper backing, as this will hasten the their demise.  Good luck!



Glenn Sherman
Project Assistant
Connecticut Newspaper Project
Connecticut State Library
231 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT  06106

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