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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 10304424, member: 13464&quot;]Hi my wonderful friends here at the Forum...</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a most wonderful 1880&#039;s leather album that was my Great Grandmothers. We&#039;ve pondered what to do with it for some time since MOST of the photos are of cousins that are pretty distant (and are fortunately named). My sister and I have pondering this last pile of family historic photos which does include this album. </p><p><br /></p><p>My Grandmother&#039;s family was from Cornwall, England and the largest Cornish American archives is fortunately at the VanOpie and Pelt Genealogical Library on the campus of Michigan Tech in Houghton, Michigan. I&#039;ve already taken them 40 banker&#039;s boxes of my mother&#039;s genealogy, newspapers, books and other ephemera which they have most graciously received and much has been put on line.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, back to the album: My sister and I have taken digital photos of immediate family, and on up the tree and she&#039;s making those available on a flash drive to family; as no one has seemingly wanted the hard cabinet cards. </p><p><br /></p><p>I hated to see this beautiful album leave the family, but gosh - no one we know in it. So I got the bright idea to <u>very carefully</u> remove the cards IN said album... and replace those with the direct family line photos that we do have. In the process; I did a repair on the silvertone buckle that holds the album pages together... and if I might say so, I&#039;m pleased as to how it turned out! </p><p><br /></p><p>The buckle is held in place with 3 small pins that go through the buckle and then the cardboard album cover and then back out the back of the buckle. The cardboard was torn badly. I managed to glue it internally, so it is &quot;solid&quot; now, only added a tiny bit of glue to the buckle that slips over the edge of the front and back side of the cover, and then replaced and glued the 3 new pins in place. It looks untouched! Happy with that!</p><p><br /></p><p>So now I&#039;m looking at pages. These are those thick cardboard gilt edged pages...with beautifully lithographed pages of mountains and animals. Amazingly, NONE of the pockets are torn! But, there is some light foxing on the pages. IS there ANY way to safely remove the foxing?? The album itself is only slightly scuffed on the covers, and the pages are all intact, along with the spine. I&#039;m sure it was very expensive once upon a time.&nbsp; The foxing isn&#039;t &quot;awful&quot;...&nbsp; but is mostly visible when the light hits it just right and looks like a dull splotch. I&#039;d post a photo; but getting it to my computer is a problem right now....and light foxing is light foxing ... right??</p><p><br /></p><p>Hoping for a simple answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>My second questions is: Although the photos will all have names on the back. I want to avoid having them pulled out to look at the back. I don&#039;t want to write on the album page either. Does anyone have a suggestion for labelling each photo where it can be easily read? I&#039;ve pondered a 8 1/2&quot; x 11&quot; index page - but it would just be loose inside the album... or cutting down an index card which would have a tab that sticks down inside the front of the pocket and folded to the front, it could house information. I really hesitate to use sticky notes - which seem easy; but surely they could discolor, loose stickiness and become lost.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Hoping for a second simple answer.</p><p>Cheerio for now!</p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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