On Thu, December 16, 2010 21:39, Tim Corio wrote: > I have tried to lift the photos. The edges come free easily, but about > half an inch from the edge the glue is holding fast. I don't want to > tug too hard on this photos as they are quite old and important to the > organization that owns them (the Rochester Numismatic Association). The > photos date to the 1920s. There are also paper items and silk ribbons. > I don't want to pull on those at all. I should have just assumed you'd tried something that obvious; my apologies. One thing I'd suggest, if nobody comes up with a risk-free procedure that works for this album, is that you can partially protect against bad outcomes by scanning or photographing the album pages at high res before you do anything risky; that can preserve at least the information, even if something bad happens to the original photo. You might consider trying (ideally on a "scratch" photo, but one rarely has one of the same age as the ones one is trying to save) is heat; that will often soften up glue, and may not do too much damage to the photos in a brief application (photos withstand dry-mounting fine, for example). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
