Alan and others. What you said Alan what you need to do. Not only photos but your documents that have on your family. Newspaper should never be folded if you can help it. Now there is one more thing NEVER USE A PEN ON YOUR DOCUMENTS. Look for ACID Free pens for the others well eat you documents. The paper you use for your computer is mark acid free. I have all my in acid free protectors then I have in notebooks (more 14 now) Janet -----Original Message----- From: Joy [mailto:bland96@aeneas.net] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 6:36 AM To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Q-R] Storing Old Photos, etc. Others may know more about this than I but I use them all the time for filing old paper articles. Just be sure it is acid free and they do have them readily available today. If you use any paper with the insert make sure it is also acid free. All page protectors are not acid free but the ones that are will list it on the front of box or package. Joy Alan Buckingham wrote: >Hello All, > > > >First, I apologize to those who may receive this more than once because I am >cross-posting to get the best answers. I have many old photos and newspaper >clippings from the 1800's and early 1900's which have been passed down >stored in shoe boxes and the like. I was thinking of storing them in 3-ring >binders inside of Avery page protectors. I will not be pasting or taping >them, just placing them in loose. I am concerned that the page protectors >may stick to the faces of the pictures and possibly damage them. Does >anyone know if this is the case? Thanks. > > > >Alan Buckingham > > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >Quaker-Roots Archives - Search List Messages From 1996 On >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== Visit The Quaker Corner - http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.796 / Virus Database: 540 - Release Date: 11/13/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.796 / Virus Database: 540 - Release Date: 11/13/2004