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The museum recently received two
scrapbooks containing newspaper articles written by a prominent local waterfront
writer from the 1920s and 1930s. The scrapbooks are full of great local articles
about Pacific Coast fishing during a time period that
will be of great interest to our members. Although the newspaper clipping are
fairly well preserved the articles were glued to acidic scrapbook pages and
cannot be easily removed.
We have a number of
strategies:
- Copy
the articles onto archival paper and preserve the masters, which would require
disassembling the scrapbook binding. Many of the clippings are in an overlay
arrangement, one on top of another requiring several to be removed from the
backing at the risk of damage.
- Microfilm
the entire collection, however, our budget does not currently support such an
undertaking.
- Interweave
the pages of the scrapbooks with interleave buffered paper and store in
archive boxes.
Are
there any suggestions from someone that faced a similar situation?
Joseph Cottingham
Maritime Museum of San Diego
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