Advice please: tightly scrolled old photo, want to scan.

[JayUU]

Hello all,

I have a few photos left by my Dad, dating back to his University days in the 1950s which I'd like to scan but I don't want to damage them by doing so.

The photos are of a whole Faculty year group and therefore very large - especially long, about 24" long, and 7-8" high. 

But the real issue is that it's been scrolled up and stored in a tube about 1" diameter - so quite tightly.

I'd love to make good quality scans of them & happy to do so in sections and stitch later on. But having got them out previously, they are quite fragile and could easily break into several sections.

Can anyone recommend a way I could make them less brittle and therefore easier to handle?

Would it be ultimately, trying to store them flat somehow?

Thanks

John

[stevew101]

Hi Jayuu,

You can find a good tutorial here .... But remember - It is a risk.

Good luck

http://www.thefamilycurator.com/home/2013/7/9/photo-tutorial-how-to-relax-and-rehumidify-old-rolled-photog.html#.Un6EjHC8Ck8

Steve

[JayUU]

Hi Jayuu,

You can find a good tutorial here .... But remember - It is a risk.

Good luck

http://www.thefamilycurator.com/home/2013/7/9/photo-tutorial-how-to-relax-and-rehumidify-old-rolled-photog.html#.Un6EjHC8Ck8

Steve

Many thanks Steve, I'll look into that.

John