Slide archive storage - boxes/trays/sleeves???

tomfrh · Jan 20, 2016

I need to organise a couple of thousand mounted 35mm slides into archive storage, arranged into groups. Currently they're scattered all over the place in projector magazines and slide holder boxes.

i am considering these options:

1. more projector magazines
2. slide boxes
https://www.preservationequipment.c...torage/Photographic-Storage/Slide-Storage-Box
3. ring binder sleeves
http://www.universityproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_list&c=511&primary=1&parentId=&navTree[]=511

Any recommendations? Anything I should steer clear of?

AgX · Jan 20, 2016

It depends. If you have sorted them for shows and often show them or need to be able to prepare a show in short time, then those slides should be stored in projecting trays. For the straight ones exist stackable plastic boxes. Out of which one can draw trays without rearranging the stack.

If used as achive I would tend to small boxes.

The transparent binder-sleeves are something inbetween.

This all concerns practicability. Another issue would be longevity.

Steve Roberts · Jan 20, 2016

I learned by bitter experience not to store slides in projector magazines. In the damp climate of South West England they grew fungus and accumulated a lot of dust. Now I keep them in plastic slide boxes, about fifteen of those to an airtight container with a bag of silica gel inside.

It doesn't take long to load slides into magazines and is a small price to pay for longevity.

Steve

AgX · Jan 20, 2016

One could put silica-gel into those tray boxes. They should be dust-free too.

MattKing · Jan 20, 2016

What type of projector do you use?

tomfrh · Jan 23, 2016

I use a Leica P600 with 50x trays.

I don't need to be able to load slides quickly, it's just my own personal archiving.

I like the idea of the sleeves, as you can put it straight on the light box and inspect a lot at once.

I have a lot of old family slides from say 1940s thru to the 80s, and a lot of them have fungus/rot damage. I'd like to avoid that.

Slide archive storage - boxes/trays/sleeves???

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