My wife is a scrapbooker and says that a product
called "Un-do" will safely remove old adhesives like
Scotch tape without damaging the photos..she's isn't
sure how it would work on glued items....for pictures
that were mounted in the magnetic type albums, you can
use dental floss...slide behind the picture and gently
"saw" back and forth to loosen the item.

Also, with the Un-do, when you apply it, it will look
like it's turning the picture or paper wet, but as it
dries you'll see there's no damage..

Mark sends

--- Susan Floyd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Our small historical society has photos and
> newspaper articles which have  
> been oh so carefully glued or scotch taped to non
> archival paper.  Is there  a 
> solvent or solution to removing the originals? 
>  
> We also have scrapbooks in extremely poor condition.
>  I don't think  that 
> interleaving the pages at this point would help.
> Would you advise obtaining  new 
> archival album pages and virtually creating a new
> album using the same order  
> and format. 
>  
> Thanks for advise and help.
>  
> Susan
> 
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Mark Conrad

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