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Re: moldy & mildewy photo album
First thing I'd do is scan all of them carefully. It's amazing what
you can do with the image off glass plates with a digital scan, even
hammered ones, figuratively speaking. Sometimes you just can't
save the original, as much as it hurts you to give up on it. I
remember having to discard some nitrate negatives because they
had reached a danger point; after we scanned and printed them of
course. We torched them as a safety demo, whoo-hoo! They
really do go up in a robust flame.
Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
295 South 1500 East
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
(801) 585-3073 // fax (801) 585-3976
rwebb@library.utah.edu
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