From: "Bernstein, Rick A - WHS" <Rick.Bernstein@wisconsinhistory.org> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:45:24 -0600 Subject: FW: laminating Message-ID: <1EA45D5A75EBB747A54A4F1905DE558B02A269DC733D@MEWMAD0PC01G03.accounts.wistate.us>
From: Mullen, Kathleen D - WHS
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:44 AM
To: 'localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu'
Subject: RE: laminating
Hi Marcie:
You're correct to question the stability of lamination over time - essentia
lly the very things that make the plastic so easily sticky and moldable wil
l leech into the prints themselves over time and cause them to start to bec
ome translucent - and the whole package will start to deform and buckle as
those plasticizers leech out of the plastic.
These websites have some picture of what happens:
http://www.louisianabindingservice.com/problems.html
http://anthropology.si.edu/conservation/lamination/
Your usual method sounds good! Here are links to good information for anyon
e looking for more on good storage techniques, along with answers to a who
le host of other preservation questions:
National Park Service Conserve-O-Grams
http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/14-02.pdf
NEDCC Preservation Leaflets:
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/4Storage_and_Handling/11StorageEncl
osures.php
Cheers!
Katie
Preservation Coordinator,
Wisconsin Historical Society
Library-Archives
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Subject: laminating
One of our members of our museum thought to do us a favor by having enlarge
ments made of his photos and then laminating them and then to donate them t
o the museum. I wondered if the lamination was archivally safe. I usually s
tore photos in acid free poly sheets and then in glass frames. Please, does
anyone know what the lamination will do?