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From: "RMS" <>
Subject: Re: [STEWART] old Photo preservation was Alexander Stewart OK: old Photo preservation
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:45:15 -0700
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anyone with a scanner can create another photo, and a TIFF, GIF, JPG or
whatever, computer file from there. That file can be given to any photo
shop for enhanced photo work. Or the person with the scanner can use his /
her s/w to enhance the computer file. Does something like this do the
job,or is Dot looking for something else?

Dick Stewart
GGG Grandson of Solomon B. and Sarah C. Stewart
Wake/NC; LCT/TN; Marion, Tuscaloosa, Perry/AL; Kemper, Leake/MS



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauren Boyd" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [STEWART] old Photo preservation was Alexander Stewart OK: old
Photo preservation


> Dear Dot:
>
> Have your friend contact their local History Museum to see
> if they have a dark room. The volunteers may be willing and
> able to make an inter-negative of the photos for your friend.
> This would enable making additional prints of the old photo.
> There may also be some commercial outfit near by or by mail
> that can perform this for your friend.
>
> However as a volunteer who has preserved and reprinted many
> old photos for my local History Museum, I would first try the
non-commercial route.
>
> Polaroid makes a set up with a fix mounted camera to create
> a new negative, just for this purpose. The film itself
> costs a couple of dollars each and it sometimes takes a few
> attempts to get the best inter-negative. The quality will
> be slightly degraded, but much worth the effort. Then the
> original needs to go into an archival box and be kept in
> a dry, dark place to prevent further fading.
>
> I have printed photos from negatives over 100 years old.
> The technology is still valid. Will the scan be valid
> 100 years from now? Perhaps, but I'd have a backup on
> film.
>
> Yours Aye,
>
> Lauren
>
>
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