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Records Advisory: Salvaging and Caring For Your Family Treasures
Salvaging Your Family Treasures
General Resources
- Basic salvage guidelines from professional conservators
- Preservation: Emergency Response and Recovery
Salvaging Books and Paper Records
- How to save wet books
- How to save wet paper records
- Freezing and drying wet books and paper records
- Preparation for drying framed or matted paper items
Salvaging Photographs
Salvaging Audio/Visual Materials
- First aid for water damaged film, magnetic tape, and discs
Flood damaged film, magnetic tape (audio and video cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes), and discs (LP’s, 45’s, optical discs, CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays) - Disaster Recovery for Films in Flooded Areas
Film (home movies) and videotapes.
Salvaging 3-D Objects
- Salvage Procedures for Wet Items
Water damaged textiles, clothing, and costume accessories, and vellum, parchment and wooden items - Salvage at a Glance: Object Collections
Water damaged organic objects (ivory shell, skin, leather, wooden objects and basketry) and inorganic objects (ceramics, metal, stone, and glass)
Caring for Your Family Treasures
- Memory and History: What to save and how – Caring for Your Treasures
- Resources for those who care for family collections
For further information or assistance contact the State Archives at:
Telephone: (518) 474-6926
Email: arch_sos@nysed.gov.