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Conservation Topics

Topics on this page reflect common questions received by the Minnesota Historical Society. These articles are intended to help individuals and institutions in the preservation of their own visual materials.

Each topic appears as a PDF (Portable Document Format) file, which can be viewed or printed using your web browser and Adobe's Acrobat Reader software. Adobe provides downloading instructions for the free Acrobat Reader for Windows and Macintosh.

• Caring for Photographic Materials, Part I.
• Caring for Photographic Materials, Part 2.
• Digitizing Photographic Images as a Preservation Tool.
• Caring for Glass-plate Photographic Negatives.
• Preserving Family Photos

Many of the documents listed above originally appeared as articles in Tech Talk, a four-page bimonthly column published by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Photo preservation materials are available at the Minnesota History Center's Museum Store. For more information, call 651-296-4694.