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Photo by Mary Jane Solomon
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j pretty expensive, Otto says. \
‘ ‘We can do work on the original \
photograph, or in a lot of cases you take j the original photograph to a j photographer,” who makes a print of j the original picture, he says. The • damage is then touched up on the new print.
“Keep the original in some kind of a conservation material in proper storage” until again needed, Dutton says.
Any kind of valuable artwork, including photographs, should be hung on interior walls, Dutton says, because exterior walls suffer greater temperature changes which hasten the destruction processes. Pieces should be kept away from direct heat sources.
The Loudoun Museum has catalogs -- available for public use -- of conservation materials, Dutton says. She also recommends that people contact the Smithsonian Institution or Harper's Ferry conservation laboratories for more information on preserving old photographs.
The following publications also may prove helpful:
'Care and Identification of 19th Century Prints” by Jim Reilly, published by Eastman Kodak. '
"Archives and Manuscripts: Administration of Photographic Collections” by Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler. published by the Society of American Archivists
"Collection. Use. and Care of Historical Photographs" by Robert A. Weinstein and Larry Booth, published by the American Association for State and Local History.
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