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Thursday, March 16, 2006

How to Preserve a Newspaper

Posted by on March 16 at 11:10 AM

I finally got around to framing the November 2004 Urban Archipelago issue and now I’m watching it yellow slowly. I wish I’d found these instructions a few months ago.


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It's not too late. You can arrest further damage at any time.

That's a terrific point. If I can carefully unglue the professional mounting job....

The Seattle P.I. management read this headline, and got a faint glimmer of hope. Realizing it was about the other kind of newspaper preservation, they sank their head into their folded arms and proceeded to cry their heart out.

You'd be surprised at how many perfectly preserved old newspapers there are around. What you did that was bad was frame it and put it somewhere light could hit it. If you had left it in a tight stack in a dark room, it would still be bright and fresh in 2104, acid or no acid.

But if it was buried beneath a stack in a dark room, it wouldn't help me get out of bed in the morning.

I emailed in about this some time ago, but why doesn't The Stranger offer posters of that cover for sale? I'd love to have a framed one up in my place somewhere.

Well, if you slept in a stack of newspapers, it would. I guess you're just not a crazy old person yet. Don't worry. It'll come: "Gramma, why are you saving all your old junk mail?"

Oh, I thought this was an article inspired by the PI's demise, on how to keep a city's newspaper running in this day and age of the decline of print newspapers.

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