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Preservation Education Curriculum Image Library

Images have been provided to assist you in illustrating most of the lessons. This collection should not be considered the definitive source for preservation images. Rather, use it to enhance your presentations and perhaps update some of your existing images. NEDCC is grateful to the many vendors and institutions—libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies—that were willing to share their photographs for this project.

These photographs are available as 72 dpi JPEG files, which can be downloaded for multimedia presentations in the classroom. You can view the caption and copyright notice for each photograph when you view the enlarged image. These images are to be used for educational purposes only and should not be published without permission from the copyright holder.

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Albumen cartes de visites. Microscopic view of silver particles. Microscopic view of silver particles in a matte collodion print. Silver image particles in a gelatin binder on a paper base. Unframed tintype. Rust is visible along the border of the iron support. Silver mirroring, a result of oxidation-reduction reactions, forms a bluish metallic sheen on the surface of an image. Mechanical damage to this photograph was caused in large part by the acidic and brittle board on which it was mounted.