Caring for Your Family Treasures Heritage Preservation

Name: Caring for Your Family Treasures Heritage Preservation
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ISBN: 9780810929098

ISBN-10: 0810929090

ISBN-13: 9780810929098

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jane S. Long, Richard W. Long, Inge-Lise Eckmann

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This practical guide, from the foremost heritage conservation organisation in America, shows how to safeguard family treasures, from antique furniture and a fragile wedding dress to cherished photograph albums and home video tapes.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Abrams
Publication date: 9/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 162
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Foreword


Getting Started


Family Treasures: Links to the Past


An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure


Agents of Deterioration


Principles of Safekeeping


Guardians of Family Memory


Books


Family Treasures on Paper


A Note about Art on Paper


Scrapbooks and Albums


Tips on Making a New Scrapbook or Album


Genealogy and Family Treasures


Photographic Prints and Transparencies


Care of Daguerreotypes, Tintypes, or Ambrotypes


Home Movies: Film and Videotape


Tips on Making New Memories


LPs, CDs, and Related Media


Motion-Picture Film


Digital Information


Matting and Framing Your Treasures


Tangible Legacies


Paintings


Fabrics


Preserving a New Wedding Dress


Furniture


Clocks and Watches


Ceramics and Glass


Family Holidays--Family Treasures


Silver, Other Decorative Metals, and Jewelry


Where to Find Silver-Care Materials


Special Collections


Musical Instruments


Treasures of Nature


Military Mementos


Little Friends: Dolls, Teddy Bears, and Toy Soldiers


Games


Further Guidance


Security and Insurance


Ten Tips for the Care of Flood-Damaged Family Heirlooms


Finding Professional Help


Finding Materials and Tools for Cleaning, Display, and Storage


Books to Help You


Other Resources to Help You


Glossary


Acknowledgments


About the Advisers


About Heritage Preservation


Index


Photograph and Illustration Credits