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I've been storing my vintage postcards wrong for years, and a museum volunteer in Salem just told me why
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claire_hart5316d ago
Oh man, that hits home. I had my grandma's old letters in a shoebox in the attic for a decade. Turns out the heat and cold up there was making the ink fade way faster. A librarian told me to just put them in a normal cardboard box in a closet, somewhere the temperature doesn't change all the time. It seems so obvious now, but I just never thought about it.
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the_miles15d ago
Wait, a normal cardboard box? That's still pretty risky for old paper. Cardboard is super acidic and can actually make paper brittle and yellow over time. An archivist friend told me to use acid-free boxes or folders, they're not even that expensive. Even a closet won't help if the box itself is eating away at the letters.
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