photographic material

 
 

Identification of different negative types within a collection. Advice on handling and storage conditions. Digital copies made of negatives, transparencies and photographs, conditions reports on collections.

projects

 
 
 

IDENTIFYING DIFFERENT NEGATIVE TYPES

A project on 350,000 photographic negatives. To identify and separate according to format (nitrate, acetate, polyester).

 

FLATTENING TIGHTLY ROLLED PHOTOGRAPHS

A collection of 50 tightly rolled wide format photographs carefully relaxed and flattened before minor conservation work carried out.

 
 

CLEANING 35mm SLIDES

A collection of over 1000 35mm slides which had suffered from moisture penetrating the sleeves were carefully removed cleaned and replaced.

 

FLOOD DAMAGED NEGATIVES

Conservation of approximately 30,000 negatives damaged by water. A wetting agent was used with purified water for the separation and rinsing process leaving the negatives free from runs and smears.

 
 

CASE STUDY

creating a completely new photograph album

An album of historically important motoring photographs for the National Motor Museum - Beaulieu. The photographs were removed from the original leaves and an entirely new album was made using museum quality boards. We made a new half leather binding with a hand tooled criss-cross pattern on the leather similar to that of the original. The original title from the front cover was re-laid onto the new cover.