5 Tips to Keep Your Keepsakes Safe
Photographs are wonderful documents of our lives, past and present. They are an invaluable tool for telling our histories and sharing our stories. Here are five of the most important things you can do to keep your photographs in the best possible shape.
- Store your photos safely. Keep your photos out of areas with experience extreme fluctuations in temperature or humidity. This can cause photos to warp and curl, or become brittle and crack. Colors also fade faster, especially with early color photographs from the 1960s and 70s. Attics and basements may seem ideal for storage, but since most have unstable conditions, they are often the worst place in your house to keep photos. Avoid storing in rooms that share an exterior wall. Instead, look for storage spaces that stay relatively temperate, like a bedroom closet.
