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Help Restoring Rotting Photos
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Assuming I can do something about it since I own a camera, A friend handed me a stack of family photos that have become damaged by exposure to the elements. They sat in a garage and had been rained on. many of the photos in frames have fungus on the glass so I can assume that the fungus and who knows what else, is embedded in the photo paper. Most of the prints are RC both B&W and color but there are some older bromide and one tintype. I planned on running them through a print washer and soaking them in a bath containing a print hardener, but I am going to scan each photo before I do any work just in case some of them don't make it. Any suggestions on how to wash the organisms out of the prints? Anything else that I shold be doing to prserve these photos?
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I do this stuff professionally. DO NOT use any chemicals on this mix of papers and emulsions, and this includes "print hardener", if these prints and other originals are worth anything at all.
You have a pretty standard and straightforward recovery operation ahead of you, at least standard for those of us that do this stuff. But it is not something you can batch up out in the garage after dinner.
Contact me if you need more info, but if these are valuable photographs, you really need to leave the recovery to pros. If they are of no value, forge ahead with whatever you like.
Tom
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