Greetings;

I am an archivist for the Titan Missile Museum, near Tucson AZ.  The museum is a
former ICBM launch complex and has been preserved complete with a Titan II
missile.

When the system was retired in 1986 we received lots of historical materials
from the Air Force. Among these are hundreds of what I will call "industrial"
photographs--mostly 8x10 black and white, mostly taken by the Air Force or the
Army Corp of Engineers to document both the construction and deactivation of
the missile sites. My question has to do with how to store the photos safely
and still permit easy access for researchers, scholars, and our docents. I
would like to give each photo an index number and store them in polypropylene
sheets (allegedly safe and available from Gaylord and others) in three-ring
binders.  A computer database would describe and cross-reference each photo for
ease of retrieval. Digitizing the photos is in the plans but until then, can
anyone see a problem with this?  Thanks for any advice.

Chuck Penson
Titan Missile Museum
Green Valley AZ
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