Repairing Old Photographs
Sometimes they come in one piece, but quite often the remnants are handed over in an envelope...
A picture received in pieces
The finished repair
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Much worse is when they have been repaired in the past with old discoloured transparent tape, or had coffee spilt on them. A recent one turned out to be a copied photo, taken without removing the mildew that covered the original! Made cleaning it up a bit tricky.
This photo was creased and dog-eared, but looked
a lot better after Betty had finished with it.
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Sometimes the emulsion sticks to the facing page and when the album is opened a huge blank space is left in the picture. One needs imagination to repair one of these!
Another task altogether is to create a photograph that never existed!
These pictures of three sisters who were unable to
be together...
...were combined into one picture for the family
album!
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