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Archival Resources

Preservation — General

  • CRP&A: “Out of the Archives” series
  • Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Preservation Leaflets
  • Ask NEDCC (Free preservation advice!)
  • National Park Service Conserve O Grams
  • American Conservation Institute
  • Canadian Conservation Institute
  • Image Permanence Institute (IPI) Storage Guide for Acetate Film
  • IPI Storage Guide for Color Photographic Materials
  • Library of Congress Collections Care Guides
  • “Fingerprints on Photographs” by Klaus Hendricks and Rudiger Krall
  • Wilhelm Imaging Research

Preservation — Film Base Identification

  • Filmcare.org: Film base identification tool
  • NEDCC Guide to Film Base Photographic Materials
  • Wikipedia: List of Photographic Films
  • The Acetate Negative Survey: Final Report by David Horvath

Preservation — Cold Storage

  • NPS Cold Storage Guide
  • NPS Cold Storage for Photographic Collections
  • National Archives Cold Storage Handling Guidelines
  • Cold Storage of Photographs at the City of Vancouver Archives

Digital Preservation/Personal Archiving

  • Library of Congress: Personal Archiving Guide
  • National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA): Levels of Digital Preservation
  • NDSA OSF Repository
  • The Sustainable Heritage Network: Digital Collections Stewardship Course Series
  • Digital Curation Centre
  • NEDCC: Caring for Private and Family Collections
  • NEDCC: Digital Preservation Reading List

Archival Vendors (American)

  • Gaylord Archival
  • University Products
  • Hollinger Metal Edge
  • Archival Methods
  • Digital Curation Centre
  • Light Impressions
  • B&H Photo Materials
  • Negative Supply (digitization vendor)

Archival Vendors (Canadian)

  • Carr Mclean
  • Brodart
Westbound Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive 5380 hauling an empty coal train through Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in December 1992. Photograph by Robert Hadley.
Sparks fly as National Railways of Mexico workers labor over NdeM narrow gauge 2-8-0 no. 265 in Mexico City on February 7, 1962. Photograph by Jim Shaughnessy. Shaughnessy-N-NdeM-0175
A German Federal Railways locomotive on Saturday, June 23, 1962, in Münster, Germany. Photograph by Victor Hand.

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