Any ideas on what to do to preserve scrapbooks and still look at them?

[aquarius31]

I store all my 19th century newspapers in the Itoya presentation books and they’re perfect. They come in multiple sizes and can shop around for best prices. They also work great for viewing them without worrying about causing further damage.

https://itoya.com/products/presentat...-art-profolio/

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by aquarius31

I store all my 19th century newspapers in the Itoya presentation books and they’re perfect. They come in multiple sizes and can shop around for best prices. They also work great for viewing them without worrying about causing further damage.

https://itoya.com/products/presentat...-art-profolio/

Great info.

I use Itoya presentation books for everything I have that is flat from 8X10 photos to all my supplements ranging from m114 to Blum's and Police Gazette supplements to m113.

There is no better way to store, while still being able to safely view, larger sized and fragile items items like those that George (Aquarius31) mentions.

Before I sold my Topps collection, I kept it in Itoya folders, too. I kept the cards in the 8 or 9 card pocket pages and put them in the folder. It took multiple folders for each set, depending on the total number of cards, but this avoided the curving of pages (and the cards contained) that can come from storing the card pages in binders.

Doug

[4scuda]

I think I will check the itoya folders out. It looks like they are available at local retailers. The scrapbooks I don’t want to take apart I’ll try the deacidification. I have a couple our national game scrapbooks with pages detached, the folders might be nice for those. I bagged and boarded the large group of sporting lifes which will keep them much safer. I can still read the front page without taking them out, which is ok since most of the content is on the front page.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by 4scuda

I think I will check the itoya folders out. It looks like they are available at local retailers. The scrapbooks I don’t want to take apart I’ll try the deacidification. I have a couple our national game scrapbooks with pages detached, the folders might be nice for those. I bagged and boarded the large group of sporting lifes which will keep them much safer. I can still read the front page without taking them out, which is ok since most of the content is on the front page.

I disagree with bags & boards keeping them safer than the folders. Unless maybe you store them flat.

[BruceinGa]

Originally Posted by aquarius31

I store all my 19th century newspapers in the Itoya presentation books and they’re perfect. They come in multiple sizes and can shop around for best prices. They also work great for viewing them without worrying about causing further damage.

https://itoya.com/products/presentat...-art-profolio/

Merry Christmas from Marietta, Ga!
I have a few magazine ads featuring baseball players, 1930's through 1950's. I enjoy framing them and try to use archival mats and foam core. I'm thinking the portfolios would be helpful for my storage.
Thanks for the link!