The adhesive remover that Wendy mentioned is widely used by scrapbookers. It is often misspelled Undo, and it might inhibit people finding it. It is also marketed by the same company as The Scrappers Solution and as Photo Care solution. It is actually Heptane, which is a solvent. It is the only "smelly" thing I know that is safe for scrapbooks, and it does clean photographs pretty well, I have used it on many cabinet cards and cartes de visite in my collection with success. Since it is a solvent, it doesn't really dry, it evaporates. It doesn't really need to be wiped off, especially if there is a riskof trauma to the object, such as an old photograph. The way it works is by dissolving the adhesive bond. Once it has evaporated, the adhesive is sticky again. It doesn't work on older glues in the same way. The kind of adhesive that it works best on is the kind that is on the back of stickers, or tape. The two other things it is good for are removing photos from "magnetic" albums, which use a synthetic adhesive, and cleaning scissors. It doesn't work for the glue used in our old scrapbooks that our great grandparents had. HTH Diana Diana Wood <diana@kjsl.com>