Indiana's Storyteller Connecting People to the Past

Aside from treatments to collection items, artifacts are stabilized physically through a variety of archival storage techniques. We choose safe acid-free and neutral pH papers and boxes where appropriate. Archival storage for undersized manuscript diaries includes wrapping and filling the void of the folder with ethafoam stitched into place.

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Panoramic photographs over 5 feet in length receive a full Tyvek interleaf and are rolled onto acid-free tubes. Drop tags identify the item for library staff.

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