> -----Original Message----- > From: Ruth Clark [mailto:[email protected]] Just back from five days in Boston and found the posts about newspapers. This is the method used by the National Archives, Great Plains branch. adapted for home use! Place the newspaper or document in a container. I use either glass or plastic but friends have used stainless steel. The size will depend upon the size of the newspaper or document. Place that container inside another container. Put water in the outer container. I put about an inch of water in the larger/outer container and usually put an overturned plate on the bottom of the larger container so that the smaller container is not setting in on the bottom of the larger container. Never put moisture directly on the newspaper. Put these containers in the frig and leave them there until you can unfold or unroll the document or newspaper easily. Then place the document or clipping between two layers of ARCHIVAL plastic and seal the outer edges. DO NOT SEAL THE paper into the seal. Remove as much air as possible before sealing the edges. This is much easier when demostrated that to write directions!!! If you have a yellow or brown newspaper clipping. Place them between two sheets of ACID FREE ARCHIVAL paper. It will not take to many days before you will see the acid "bleed out" of the clipping on to the two sheets of papers. Change the two acid free sheets as often as necessary until the clipping has resumed a flexible condition. Then seal it in archival plastic as mentioned above. Remember that not all acid free paper is archival paper. archival paper will have a large percentage of cotton. The larger the percentage the better. Our local genealogical society has the original newspaers printed in our county during the Civil War. They are in a bound volume and you can turn the pages better than you can this morning's newspaper. Off the stump for now. Ruth Keys Clark, Kansas __________________________________________________