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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;morgen94, post: 1602051, member: 217&quot;]I just bought a book titled &quot;Preserving Your Family Photographs&quot; from <a href="https://www.gaylord.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gaylord.com/" rel="nofollow">Gaylord Archival Supplies</a>, to help residents who come to our local history museum with simple questions about that topic. Page 67 states: &quot;Handling prints and negatives without gloves allows a thin layer of oils to build up on the surface. This moisture attracts dust and adheres to the surface...If your contemporary prints have been handled without gloves, gently clean off the surface using a lint free soft cloth.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The bibliography in the book lists a reference titled <a href="http://resources.conservation-us.org/pmgtopics/1993-volume-five/05_02_Hendriks.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://resources.conservation-us.org/pmgtopics/1993-volume-five/05_02_Hendriks.pdf" rel="nofollow">Fingerprints on Photographs</a>, which will tell you more than you will want to know about the potential damage from the fingerprints on your photograph, but not much about cleaning them off the photograph.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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