I would be interested in any suggestions as well.  I am a small-time
postcard collector myself.

Thank you,

Meredith

Meredith Rendall

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Information Systems and Technology
Systems Training Coordinator
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028


-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Buford [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:26 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Postcards


To the MUSEUM LIST EXPERTS!!

This came to me from another list that I subscribe to -
I f anyone knows the best way to preserve thes - let me know and I will
forward it to the author

Thanks,
Sharon

Subject:  preserving old postcards

This might be a little off topic for this list, but I know many of you
are familiar with historic preservation, so here goes.

I have recently started collecting postcards of my town.  Now I have
about 50 postcards and I am wondering what the best way is to store
them.  I would like to frame some of them, but obviously can't do it
with all of them.  I really love the hard plastic sleeves that some of
them came in, but I just read that over time the plastic can damage the
postcard.

Since I am not a diehard postcard collector, I thought maybe one of you
out there might have some suggestions.  I'm assuming some sort of acid
free paper in an album would be the best (??).  I'm sure that there is a
product out there for this purpose, but I'm not sure where to look.


Laura

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