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Preservation and Conservation of Family Photographs

and Documents

Join us for a FREE virtual program on August 20 at 2:30 p.m. ET!

Family photographs and documents are the top artifacts that get passed down from generation to generation. Most of these artifacts end up in a variety of photograph albums and boxes that are put in garages, cellars, attics, and a variety of other elements that will /or inevitably damage and/or destroy the artifacts that you wish to preserve. This presentation goes through how to preserve and conserve these materials from the supplies that are needed to the best practices in how to best maintain these items for future generations, including what to do with photographs in scrapbooks and sticky photograph albums.

Colleen Pepper is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona that teaches Preservation of Information among other courses. She has been the family genealogist, historian and archivist for both sides of the family for the last decade.

Before being an Adjunct Professor, she has been an educator for middle school and high school students, worked overseas in the Middle East, and is a Veteran of the US Army.

She holds a Bachelor Degree in English, History and ESL with Certification to teach, as well as a Master Degree in Library and Information Science with Archival Certification. She is a member of several organizations including the Association of Professional Genealogists, and the Society for American Archivists.