A guide to the preventative conservation of photograph collections

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"[The present volume] provides a selection from more than sixty-five texts tracing the development of this important area of conservation. The texts range chronologically from antiquity to the present day. They cover a wide range of subjects, including philosophies of preventive conservation, early traditions of housekeeping, the museum environment, relative humidity and temperature, pollution, biodeterioration, and light. There is also a generous selection of readings discussing future trends"--Page 4 of cover.

subjects: Photographs,  Photograph collections,  Conservation and restoration,  Museum techniques,  Art,  Museum conservation methods,  Photographs, conservation and restoration,  Exhibitions,  English Portrait painting,  Renaissance Portrait painting,  Museumsbestand,  Konservierung,  Kulturgüterschutz,  Denkmalpflege