Are the photographs stored with newspaper clippings?
Are they wrapped in rubber bands to hold them together? Newspapers and rubber bands are extremely harmful to photographs. If you would like to store a clipping with the photographs it may be related to, substituting with a photocopy of the clipping would be much safer. The original newspaper clippings can be stored in another container nearby. Using photo-safe paper envelopes or mat board to separate stacks of images is also a big improvement on the rubber-band-wrapped stack approach. Were your images thrown haphazardly into whatever container was handy at the time? Organizing photos by event, time frame, or subject will allow you to find them at a moment’s notice, and may inspire you to put them into an album or share them with friends and family. Try sorting photographs for 15 minutes a week, or during commercials while watching TV. If you have older children, you may be able to enlist their help – they enjoy seeing old photos of themselves or their family. Just watch out for sticky
