The care of black-and-white photographic collections

"This bulletin outlines the handling and cleaning procedures to be used with black-and-white photographic artifacts found in archival and museum collections. Detailed instructions are also given for preparing these artifacts for storage, as well as achieving the stabilization of deteriorated black-and-white photographs. The recommendations put forward in this bulletin are based on the inherent structural characteristics of photographic artifacts. The procedures, selected from the existing literature, have been modified to provide practical guidelines for custodians of photographic collections."