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Article: Famous postcard collection handled with care.(Neighbor)(Lake County Discovery Museum)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Byline: Katherine Hamilton-Smith
The Lake County Discovery Museum is home to the Curt Teich Postcard Archives, the world's largest public collection of postcards. Because of this important collection, the museum staff of 10 receive questions about caring for antique postcards and postcard albums. And indeed, there are some specific things you can do to preserve old postcard albums.
Most antique postcard albums have black or green paper pages. This paper is acidic and, over time, is harmful to the postcards displayed in the album. So, eventually, you should remove the cards from the album, if you can do so carefully without tearing the corners of the ...