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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 These images are to be used for educational purposes only and should not be published without permission from the copyright holder.

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An unusual pattern of discoloration is evident across the center of this framed print. An examination of the back of the framed print reveals the cause of damage: pollutants in the air penetrated the broken (and chemically unstable) framing materials. The darkened outer edges of this text block indicate exposure to pollutants when the book was stored closed on the shelf.