I've worked in two sites with important photographic scrapbooks circa 1900-10 and both museums chose to use interleaving between each page without separating it from the book in order to preserve the original binding and then store the whole books flat in an acid-free box.? Both sites also photographed each individual page so that as clarity failed on the inks, a record of the brighter state was maintained.

Kjirsten
Curator of Education
Clermont State Historic Site
Germantown, NY




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From: Erin Gerrity <[log in to unmask]>
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I work at a small local history museum and an important sports figure recently 
donated several 
scrapbooks filled with mostly newspaper clippings to our collection. Searching 
Museum-L archives 
gave me some good ideas about how to preserve the pages (clear archival sleeves, 
acid free tissue 
between pages, etc.) but I couldn't find anything on how to store each item as a 
whole. We will 
probably take the book apart to sleeve each page. Does one normally attempt to 
rebind it or do 
you buy special binders to then insert your sleeved pages and store the original 
book covers in a 
box with the new notebook? Do you recommend storing each scrapbook in its own 
box? Any ideas 
would be helpful. Thanks!

Erin Gerrity
Portland Museum
2308 Portland Avenue
Louisville, KY  40212
502 776-7678

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