[pure-silver] Re: keeping negatives dry and safe on the gulf coast

March 21, 2009, from Lloyd Erlick,

I've seen silica gel at my local supermarket. They sell it in the pet food
and supplies section. I think silica gel also absorbs odours. The
containers are one or two kilogram; don't remember the price exactly but it
was a single digit dollars. It can easily be put into small packets of
barbecue weight aluminum foil folded up and punctured with a fork. I'm sure
they could be reused many times, unless they get cat urine on them ...

regards,
--le
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At 12:09 PM 3/18/2009 , you wrote:
>Hi, every summer I leave my darkroom in Houston and go to TN to be a 
>farmer again.  Every summer for the past ten years I have parked my 
>negatives in my partner's office, at the University of Houston. It 
>seemed like a safe place, as it was a relatively new building, with 
>sprinklers for fire, etc.  At least, it seemed safer than our old 
>house.  But that proved not to be the case:  last summer, Hurricane Ike 
>blew the roof of his office building, and his office got really wet.  
>Luckily my negatives were in a file cabinet that didn't get wet, but it 
>was close.
>
>So, I'm trying to figure out how to keep them dry in the event of a 
>hurricane this summer.  We have a better house now, but it could still 
>get a tree blown down on its roof. His office building is fixed 
>supposedly, but you never know.  I have been thinking that I would like 
>to find a storage place, maybe like a rented storage, for my negatives 
>over the summer. What kind of place should I look for?  I have a lot of 
>negatives, some in plastic binder boxes, and some 4x5 negatives in 
>paper sleeves in cardboard boxes.
>
>I have a fireproof waterproof safe in TN where I keep a few of my most 
>precious negatives, but it doesn't hold very many, and bigger versions 
>of this safe seem pretty expensive.  Do other folks on this list worry 
>about flooding and fire?  how do you protect your negatives when you're 
>gone, etc?
>
>--shannon
>
>
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