Photo albums

A museum patron has asked for advice in preserving two WPA
photograph albums (late 1930s). The albums consist of three ring
binders with pages of heavy card stock, black in one album and
yellow in the second. Several loose pages, also punched for a three
ring binder, are inserted in the front of one album. Many
photographs are detached. The albums will be used as reference
material in a state department office.

The albums are generally in good condition. Because they will be
used, would it be appropriate to insert each page in a Mylar sleeve
in a new binder, while preserving the original binder? Interleaving
would probably become an irritant to the office staff, and be
removed. How should the identifying tabs on the dividers be treated?
I've recommended reattaching the photographs with two small dabs of
PVA--is there a better way? Any ideas are welcome. Thanks for the
help.

Larry Hutchings, Curator
Stevens County Historical Society
SCHS Museum
116 West Sixth Street
Morris MN 56267
320-589-1719

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                 Conservation DistList Instance 10:103
                  Distributed: Wednesday, May 21, 1997
                       Message Id: cdl-10-103-004
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