In honor of Preservation Week, I thought it was high time to do a post on our film preservation program.
Cellphone pictures of a few nitrate negatives from
the Lincoln Wade Barnes Photographic Negatives Collection
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Freezing Film for Preservation Week
Posted in Photography, Preservation, tagged Acetate Film, Cold Storage, Motion picture film, Nitrate film on April 27, 2018| Leave a Comment »
1990s Throwback
Posted in Amherst College, College History, Photography, Preservation on September 28, 2017| 1 Comment »
This week we’re taking a quick visual trip back to Amherst in the 1990s:
In our ongoing work to preserve the photographic materials in our collection, we’re preparing many of our slide collections for frozen storage. Freezing color slides both slows the fading of the dyes and stabilizes the underlying acetate film. The original slides will still be accessible to researchers with a few days of advanced notice, but we’re making basic scans of all of the sheets of slides to make it easier for researchers to find images without needing to remove any materials from the freezer. All of the images above come from slides of campus scenes taken by Amherst’s Office of Public Affairs in the 1990s.
Enjoy this little trip back in time and rest assured that these images will last long into the future!
