In a message dated 8/5/2000 7:51:29 AM Mountain Daylight Time, ABJACOBS1@aol.com writes: << What we did here for the problem was take the photos out side and lay them in the sunshine. Maybe an hour and it went away while the photos were outside. Pre Civil War would be glass I would not put glass outside but paper photos. We had no problems killing the mildew this way. Learned this from a paper archivist. You could check with your archives at your state historical society. >> Be very, VERY careful what you put outside or even expose to light inside your house hanging on the walls. While the fixation process is very good nowadays, and with proper developing and fixing today's pictures can last 100+ years by their estimates exposed to light, handling, etc. The process 100 years ago, or even 40 years ago, was not the same. Pictures can fade, colors on transparencies can fade also, even at different rates. (There are three layers of seperate colors on transparency film) This fading occurs even if stored in the dark. There is a wash for cleaning old photos, but I never had to worry about it with my photos, and I've never had to use it.....so I can't remember the formula. I bet someone in a museum (or archives) might know. Even a very good antique store might have it. Or call up Kodak. (Resort to a photo store as last choice. Technology has changed so much and most are more interested what is happening today instead of 50-150 years ago) What I would do is scan the pictures onto a CD before they get worse. Scan at the highest resolution possible. Don't take the easy way out. At least you'd have a hard copy if anything went wrong. Then see about restoring them. Do one picture at a time to make certain whatever method you choose is safe. If something does go wrong, at least you have the CD to work with later. There are many wonderful programs out there that let you alter and manipulate the data. Regards, Diane Researching: Wolford, Harman, Briggs, Wilks, Hayes, Bowling, Whitlam, Flannery, Schenk, Dyer, Burton, Bauder/Bader, Hardendorf, Barnum, Clark, Keith, Finch http://www.lineage.net