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How to Preserve Newspaper Clippings

Newspapers are a continuous diary of our world. When an historic event occurs, when you find evidence to be used in genealogical research, and when there's a report about a personal accomplishment, you'll want to clip the article and do your best to preserve the newsprint.

Things You'll Need

  • Laminate Rolls
  • High-resolution Scanners
  • Acid-free Scrapbooks
  • Clear Page Protectors
  • Mylar Covers
  • Scissors
  • Acid-free Papers
  • Computers
  • SLR Camera
  • camera lenses - macro, zero focus lens
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Instructions

  1. The Original

    • 1

      Avoid exposure to sunlight, moisture and extreme temperatures, which causes these newspapers to deteriorate quickly. Unheated garages and humid basements are poor places to store clippings.

    • 2

      Turn out the lights! Light causes a reaction with the acid in the paper that darkens it.

    • 3

      Refrain from folding the clipping. Folding causes undue wear and also allows two surfaces of newsprint to come in contact, which shortens the newsprint's life.

    • 4

      Stay away from staples and paper clips. Interaction between metals and a newspaper clipping will create permanent marks on the paper.

    • 5

      Keep newspaper clippings separate from other paper items you're attempting to preserve.

    • 6

      Check your stationery store for a polyester-film folder with a sheet of alkaline-buffered paper as the backing.

    • 7

      Slip the unfolded newspaper clipping in the folder.

    • 8

      Keep the folders in file folders and boxes constructed of high-quality, acid-free, alkaline-buffered materials.

    • 9

      Choose a cool and dry location such as a closet in an air-conditioned room as a storage place for the boxes.

    Copies

    • 10

      Make photocopies for everyday use.

    • 11

      Photocopy the newspaper clipping onto nonacidic paper as many archivists do. (They actually dispose of the clipping itself, because newsprint is acidic, deteriorates quickly and can damage other paper.)

    • 12

      Laminate it. Lamination, however, ruins the collecting value of historic newspapers. If you're preserving a paper hoping its value will increase, you should not laminate it.

    • 13

      Make copies with a single-lens reflex camera equipped with a zero-focus lens.

    • 14

      Duplicate your newspaper clipping with your computer scanner.


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