My mother gave me a box of family portrait-style photos that she had stored in the bottom of a cedar chest. They are mostly of the 1950's era. Some of them have little tan-colored spots that I think is probably a mold of some sort. Does anyone know if there is some treatment that would kill the mold and stop its progress? Thanks. Jo ROBERSON Prytherch

This doesn't address your question directly, but.... one thing I have done with old pictures is to take a picture of them with my digital camera. It does not need a flash, and so it can make quality reproductions of them without damaging them, and these reproductions will last forever... A few pictures that I've taken can be seen at http://209.190.205.248/genes/db/browse.cfm?dbname=MyFamily&ID=293&sex=male http://209.190.205.248/genes/db/browse.cfm?dbname=MyFamily&ID=267&sex=male -----Original Message----- From: prytherch [mailto:prytherch@cconnect.net] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 11:15 AM To: NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NCBERTIE] Photo Preservation My mother gave me a box of family portrait-style photos that she had stored in the bottom of a cedar chest. They are mostly of the 1950's era. Some of them have little tan-colored spots that I think is probably a mold of some sort. Does anyone know if there is some treatment that would kill the mold and stop its progress? Thanks. Jo ROBERSON Prytherch ==== NCBERTIE Mailing List ==== Post your Query on http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.northcarolina.counties.bertie ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237