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


This thread really highlights the reality that long-term
archival is about much more than simple chemical stability
of a medium.  Archiving is a long-term task.

;-)

Dana
(who won't point out that it's far easier to store multiple perfect
 replicas of a digital image in geographically diverse locations :-))


Sissy Albertine wrote:

Hi Sharon,
My husband and I are both photographers in Baton Rouge, LA and luckily
made it through Hurricane Ike with no problems. We keep "special"
negatives in a safe deposit box at our local bank. It's a little pricey
but worth it. Before the recent hurricane(s), we purchased a big plastic
tub with wheels and a snap-on cover and stashed our important papers and
other negatives in it. At least if there was a roof leak, they would be
protected for a bit. I think we picked it up at Lowe's.
Sissy Albertine

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon Stoney
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:10 PM
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pure-silver] keeping negatives dry and safe on the gulf coast
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


http://shannonstoney-twors.blogspot.com/
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