Preservation and Conservation of Photographs
Guidelines for Care & Identification of Film-Base Photographic Materials by Monique Fisher and Andrew Robb, Art Conservation Program, University of Delaware, 1993.
National Park Service Conserve-O-Grams on Photography:
Caring for Photographs; General Guidelines
Caring for Color Photographs
Caring for Color Photographs: Special Monochrome Processes
Caring for Blueprints and Cyanotypes
Storage Enclosures for Photographic Prints and Negatives
Caring for Your Photographs - An American Institute for Conservation publication (also available as a pdf)
Family Papers and Photographs: Tips for Long-Term Care - A Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) pdf document
Northeast Document Conservation Center
A Short Guide to Film Base Photographic Materials: Identification, Care, and Duplication
Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
Microfilm and Microfiche
Canadian Conservation Institute
Care of Black-and-White Photographic Negatives on Film
Care of Black-and-White Photographic Prints
Care of Colour Photographic Materials
General Photography Information
Ransom Center Department of Photography and Film
Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a university-based nonprofit research laboratory devoted to scientific research in the preservation of visual and other forms of recorded information. For downloads of PDF documents "A Consumer Guide to Traditional and Digital Print Stability", "A Consumer Guide for the Recovery of Water-Damaged Traditional and Digital Prints" and other documents click here.
Mike Ware Alternative Photography
Digital Print Identification Website and the Process Database contains information on identification and preservation of digital prints.
Conservation
Departments
Connect with the
Harry Ransom Center
