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Australian Inland Mission
Project Brief | Cataloguing Guidelines| Preservation &
Handling
General Rules
- Wash hands regularly to ensure clean hands at all times: use
cotton or latex gloves for all items.
- Place all glass negatives on a felt blanket provided.
- Always have plenty of room in your workspace.
- Transport items as much as possible in their box or mylar pockets
- Be careful removing fragile glass negatives from the box.
- Dont lick your fingers prior to lifting the plastic
negatives.
- Please hold all negatives by the edge.
- Please ensure your area is well ventilated.
- Avoid viewing glass negs on a light box, if necessary hold up to
the light.
Treatments
Most of the plastic negatives will not be treated as they are beyond
treatment. Please ensure you are wearing gloves when handling these items and
that your area is well ventilated.
Cracked or lifting emulsions should be given to a conservator to
treat. Please do not take the plate out of the paper wrapping when damaged.
Please place the damaged negative in a mylar pocket and then in the green
polypropylene box provided in Lisas cupboard with a blue treatment
form.
Cleaning
Fingerprints and smudges on glass negatives should be cleaned with
Ethanol using a cotton swab. Clean the non-emulsion side only!
Scanning
Plastic Negatives
Please use the glass tray when scanning plastic negatives and ensure
the glass tray is securely in place.
- Ensure plastic negative is clean. Use hake or blower brush to dust
off light surface dirt.
- Place magnetic strips on two sides, top and bottom. Use a light box
to ensure that you are not covering the image area.
- Make sure the negatives are securely in position.
Cropping
- Please crop to the edge of the image area leaving 1 mm border (max
2mm).
Glass Negatives
- Ensure the glass negative is clean
- Place glass negatives emulsion side up on the glass tray.
- Ensure glass neg is placed evenly on the glass tray.
