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Preservation supply companies (see http//www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/ for links to several companies) have a wide range of safe storage formats for a variety of objects, textiles, paper and photographs. Two brochures, The Care of Family Papers and the Home Library and Preserving Your Family Photographs, are available at http//www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/. Additional information on the care of glass, ceramics, metal objects, textiles, paper and photographs can be found at the American Institute for Conservation’s web site http//aic.stanford.edu/treasure/ and the Canadian Conservation Institute’s “Preserving My Heritage” web site www.preservation.gc.ca. An excellent reference with chapters on many types of objects and collections is Caring for Your Collections Preserving and Protecting Your Art and Other Collectibles (the National Committee to Save America’s Cultural Collections Arthur W. Schultz, Chairman, New York Harry N. Abrams, 1992).

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