European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fading memories albums Daman by Glenn Collins new York times he photo album. Storehouse for the treasured memories o Many of America s 64 million of Anulio. A Llen damages the images it hold. The materials and construction of Many now import of albums As Well As millions of albums purchased m years past create a uni fish environment far photographic prints research has shown Al ask arc Black and White photographs and the color snapshots thai have documented the lives of millions Dunn the last Lour decades. An Esse Tiol Parl of Many families heritage is in Dnn Gor of being lost and cd Tow Are aware of it said James m. Redly director of she Imago permanence Institute of the Rochester Institute of technology. People think that by putting these family treasures in on album they re being preserved forever 1o be  Down to future generations said Judith Dorlson the conservation Olls cer at the Hoover institution of Stanford University in  in Many cases thuse albums Are helping to Speed choir  in some albums photographs Are ruined much More quickly than they would be if you just left them in n shoe Box said Douglas Severson a conservator at Hie Art Institute of Chicago he is chairman of the photography group of the american Institute Lor conservation the National organization of professional conservators and researchers the situation is increasingly serious Sard Reilly because the materials in the photo albums Are getting cheaper and cheaper As stores sell Low priced albums imported irom the far Easl the storage areas Lor Many families albums attics and basements Are adding to the problem Severson said since icy expose pictures to damaging heat humidity and wide fluctuations in temperature. The Roc Hosier Insl Lute s most recent research shows that the level of damage irom poor Quality materials is much worse than we hat imagined Reilly said. The worst Lype of album conservators say is the most common one the so called magnetic album it has no magnets but us cardboard pages grip photographs on a Sticky adhesive Coaling covered by a layer of plastic that is peeled Back to position the photos. In such albums the cheap Quality cardboard gives off peroxides that cause yellow staining in the whiles of the prints in both Black and White and color prints re Fly said. The plastic covering can to harmful not Only because it completely seals Tho photograph in with cardboard but because the plastic gives Oil gases that attack photographic images. Only certain plastics Are regarded As Sale and that s not the kind you find in the cheaper albums said ratify. The Best plastics Are polyester Trade name mylar polyethylene polypropylene Tri acetate and Lyvek. Furthermore Severson said the strips of adhesive material can be devastating to photographs transferring themselves to the print Fortson explained that eventually a Bond forms Between the adhesive and he photograph so you cannot Lake out lha photo without destroying  this is by no Means the Only harmful Type of album. Reify said Iho Black backing paper that was used in Many older albums is the pits the paper gives off oxidant gases that attack photo  acid used in making paper Olien places photographs in jeopardy not Only irom the chemical action of Alburn pages on the prints but own the disintegrating effect it has on the pages. " n some old albums the Pagos have crumbled to dust Reilly said. Harmful too Are rubber Cement animal glues and mucilage used to mount prints and Pale Down photo mounting Corners. Most photo albums from the 1940s and earlier containing Black and while pictures show it it ing baby s firsts by Herbert g. Mccann associated press or More than half a Century american parents have recorded baby s firsts from the lit is Day of tile to the Lisl Day of school in a Book designed to capture those fleeting and precious childhood memories. Some classic observations out of Iha Mouths of babes also get logged in the both. Our baby s first seven years which has been popular Wilh parents since 1928 what do dead people Eaf Leona Lynn Simon. Icon 3, asked her Mother in 1954 and Doris Simon Trolo in Down just As she noted the boy doll Leona received from aunt Greenfield on her first birthday. That Davy Crockett was a favorite song Al age 2, and the four months of Ballet lessons Al age 5. I treasure the thoughts and information recorded in the Book says Leona Simon Fleischer now 35, who now keeps baby books for her own three children in Nashville. Term our baby s first seven years was created by or. Joseph Boelee it was published by the mothers Aid Board of Chicago lying a Hospital founded by Delee in 1895. Begun with just $500 and the help of friends and benefactors including Hull House founder Jane Adams the Hosp