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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jerry Coker, post: 4391220, member: 18802&quot;]Thank you for the replies! These are not my family photos, but other families albums/photos that I purchased mostly off eBay. I started off just wanting to have some CDV&#039;s, tintypes &amp; cabinets in my photograph collection, and I had no examples. Anyway, once I received my first album of 19th century photos I became hooked. Some of the subjects/sitters are fascinating, and quite charming. And if there is any provenance (names, photographer info., etc.) it makes it even more enjoyable to research some of the families. I have about a half dozen albums and have reached the point where I need to decide how to display or store them. The first 2 albums I received I removed the photos and put them in plastic pages with binders. These are the same type of plastic pages I store all my sports cards in (Ultra Pro archival safe pages). But the last few albums I received I left the photos in the album and stored them in plastic bags in boxes. I now prefer leaving the photos in the albums, as they were originally, and like the idea of putting them in my bookcase. But I&#039;m still a little concerned about the photos long term safety being stored in their original albums. Most of the albums have some foxing (brown spots), which I believe some photos may have inherited over the years. Unfortunately, some of these albums may not have been stored properly before I got them. So maybe I should store all the photos in archival pages/binders. I just can&#039;t decide. Oh, and I do photograph all the album photos, so I have digital copies. Lastly, I suspect I will hold on to all these photos for awhile, and they may end up as part my personal collection of photographs that I will to my family. But I&#039;ve been collecting photographs and other memorabilia for 40+ years, and if there is one thing I&#039;ve learned, its that my collecting habits can change![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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