Glass Slides How to Display

Hi,
A friend was given a bunch of photographs and glass slides, all of Alaska from 1915-22 time period. She would like to display the glass slides, (they are of sleds & dogs) and is wondering if she put them in a frame with light behind them if that would hurt them?
Or does anyone have any ideas on how to display them - she doesn't want to put them in a box.
Thanks for any information.

 

Personally,I LOVE this !

 

What a great display, thanks johnny!

 

Wow, Johnny -- great display! Is that yours, or did you find the photo somewhere?

 

Those sound like nice slides!
I'm not sure whether the constant exposure to light would be damaging or not.....any photo experts around?

I've known basket-display rooms to have a motion sensor, so that a dim light was turned on only when someone was present.
If the light is bad for the slides, such an arrangement might work for a framed display, depending on the location.

 

Yes, they are very nice! I should have taken photos of them, the dogs are great.
I've looked on-line but can't seem to find any information on whether constant light would hurt them - so hopefully someone will come know.

 

I just remembered something featured in the final episode of Ken Burns' The Civil War. Matthew Brady (the famous CW photographer) went out of business and all his remaining plates (which were glass) were either destroyed or sold as scrap glass for glazing greenhouses. Over the years the images all "burned" away from the sunlight.

Now yours may be more stable because of more modern techniques, but it would be a risk.

 

Has friend given any thought to digitizing them to make them more useful and permanent? There are companies who will do that for a fee if friend doesn't want to do it at home. Need a special scanner like those some libraries have now for microfilm and microfiche. Here's one I digitized recently-looking down over the edge into crater of Maunaloa volcano on Oahu in 1970's. I think there's another adjustment on the machine that gets rid of the graininess, but I hadn't discovered it yet. Scanning makes big files so if you click on this photo it will expand to the size of a garage door or so.

 

Thanks bakers and spring!
What a shame to destroy those old plates That is what I was wondering, if that would happen to these with the light
Yes, they know about making copies but her thought is that it would be nice to display these old slides rather than leave them in a drawer or box. Photos would be nice in frames but displaying these would be better.

 

Be great if u could find one of those flat x-ray reading light boxes like in doctors' offices, slides could be arranged on it and fixed somehow, hang it on wall like a picture. Lots of new and used ones on E-boo

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/x-ray-view-box

 

Frame them like stained glass....in a thick wood frame.....with a back light....
Then they only need be lit from time to time......led lights would do minimal harm...

 

I have sold scads of slides to a craftsperson here in Chicago who makes lamp shades from them................

 

Would LOVE to see a BIGGER picture of this....it looks amazing!!!!
Sue