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The Paper Preservation Bundle

Two archivist workbooks for the paper your family saved: the photos, albums, and scrapbooks, and the newspapers and clippings. Get both for $52 and save $15.

What you get

Photos, albums, scrapbooks, and newspapers are usually stored together, and they damage each other. Newsprint leaves acid stains on every photo and letter it touches. Magnetic albums and lamination lock photos into materials that break down over time. This bundle gives you both workbooks so you can care for the whole box, not just part of it.

Save it Before it Fades: An Archivist's Guide to Saving Your Family Photos, Albums & Scrapbooks shows you what lamination does to a photo and what to do if yours are already laminated. It also covers when to keep a scrapbook as it is and when it's safe to rebuild, how to choose a photo album, and how to digitize without treating the scan as a replacement for the original.

Save Your Newspapers: A Preservation Workbook for Newspapers and Clippings walks you through five steps: assess and inventory, rehouse clippings, keep full newspapers flat, box everything, and digitize. It also covers mold, water damage, framing, and reprints. It includes a spreadsheet inventory log and two real 1944 Detroit Free Press front pages that are assessed and logged step by step.

Both workbooks come as instant PDF downloads, and you'll find the files in your Payhip account after checkout. Bought separately, they cost $67. The bundle is $52.

This is a digital download. No physical supplies are included.

From a working archivist

I'm Mary Snyder, a consulting archivist and public historian with an MLIS and more than a decade of experience at institutions including Monticello, The Henry Ford, and Historic Charleston Foundation. I run Snyder Archives & Research, and I share preservation advice as @travelingarchivist.

I wrote these workbooks because you kept asking me the same questions about the photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers in your closets. Each one gives you the steps an archivist would follow, written so you don't need any experience to use it.

Get both workbooks

Photos + Newspapers

$52