Re: Remove photos from old album

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I don't know if you mean Rochester NY or Rochester MN or some other but if you mean NY I would think that there would be a number of photo restoration resource people in your community.  Have you tried RIT or Eastman House?  Or possibly other sites there? 
Don

On 12/17/10 8:57 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
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).


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