Foams Glass plate negative housing

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I am about to try to come up with some sort of housing for glass plates,
the main aim being safety in (I hate to say the word anymore)
earthquakes, and am toying with the idea of doing something with
ethafoam or (preferably) something cushionier (hey, I made up a new
word).  Now, given all you said a while back about polyethylene films,
instinct tells me to isolate the image from the foam, which I guess I
would do anyway to avoid abrasion, but do you know of any work done on
foams and photographic materials?

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Later in the week I will do an AATA search and a search of the Materials
database at the Getty, but Im not terribly optimistic (if I find
anything, I'll email you the search results, if you like).\ ...

w

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