Category Archives: Negative Scanning

Remember the Maine

Posted on May 18, 2017 by albumenworks

Every image we work with is compelling in its own way but recently we received a box of 30 nitrate negatives for preservation that had appreciable historical significance. So badly curled, brittle, and stuck together were the almost 120-year-old negatives … Continue reading →

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Before and After: 35mm Acetate Film Stripping

Posted on July 18, 2014 by albumenworks

As we have posted previously, we have had some success treating deteriorating 35mm negatives by stripping the gelatin image layer from its acetate base. These are scans of the stripping project and experiments that we have been carrying out over the … Continue reading →

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Digitizing Glass Plates for New York City Municipal Archives

Posted on April 29, 2014 by albumenworks

  Over time the history of an institution is often captured through photographs of the people and events that helped shape it over the years. Digital technologies have made it easier to share these images and the stories they tell, … Continue reading →

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Negative Deterioration Part Two: Cellulose Acetate Negative Conservation

Posted on July 17, 2013 by albumenworks

Vinegar syndrome, or the process of  cellulose acetate deterioration, is an unavoidable issue for any collection of acetate negatives, either presently or in future decades.  Before deterioration occurs or early in the deterioration process, preventative measures can be taken to … Continue reading →

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Negative Deterioration Part One: Digitization and Preservation of Cellulose Nitrate and Cellulose Acetate Negatives

Posted on July 10, 2013 by albumenworks

Before polyester film became readily available in the 1950’s, all flexible film negatives were made on some form of cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate support.  Both of these film bases have deterioration issues, and in the case of nitrate negatives, … Continue reading →

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Edwin Hale Lincoln Exhibition

Posted on May 20, 2013 by albumenworks

We have been delighted to be involved in the digitization and printing of images made by Berkshire photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln, to be exhibited at the Berkshire Historical Society at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead.  Lincoln moved to the Berkshires in 1893 … Continue reading →

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Gottscho Acetate Negative Recovery

Posted on March 30, 2011 by albumenworks

Approximately 800 negatives made by the architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho, in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, are in the process of being conserved, rehoused, and digitized by Chicago Albumen Works.  As with other … Continue reading →

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JPAC: Conservation of Acetate film

Posted on February 1, 2011 by albumenworks

CAW is currently working on a project to conserve deteriorated acetate x-rays and flouroscope images from the Korean War.  By stripping the layer of gelatin emulsion away from the deteriorating acetate base, it is possible to flatten these badly distorted, … Continue reading →

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