Georgia Historical Society

Basic Preservation for Your Family Treasures

Lecturers: Nora Lewis, Lynette Stoudt, and Alison Bentley    
Dates: June 8 and July 20
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Cost: $75 per person
Materials included in the price of the class

Taking proper care of your family treasures will ensure that they will be around for future generations to learn from and enjoy. Basic Preservation for Your Family Treasures will provide participants with effective and easy-to-use solutions to prolong the life of family history materials. All techniques are based on archival professional standards and suitable for a wide variety of items. This class will focus on preserving paper-based items such as letters, diaries, newspaper, photographs, scrapbooks, books, and artwork.

Professional archivists from GHS’s Library and Archives will provide information on how to perform basic preservation techniques for the most common forms of family history materials. Following an hour of introduction, staff will provide personalized consultations on items brought to the class by participants. Please note – participants are limited to one item each. Additionally, participants will be instructed in a hands-on preservation activity. All participants will receive one archival document case, ten archival folders, and five archival photograph sleeves.   

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