Would not high resolution photography of those images suffice? dr > From: [log in to unmask] > Reply-To: "A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State > history." <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:01:41 EST > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Cross post from a hard-copy discarder > > A central issue, that is, the original issue, in saving the originals of old > crumbling, disintegrating newspapers after microfilming is the value of the > illustrations. The only "originals" of many important photographs are the > grainy, screened versions that were printed in the newspapers. These > reproduce TERRIBLY from microfilm. Granted that many of the photos, because > they are printed on brittle, crumbling, yellow paper are already lost, those > that may have survived should be preserved. These crumbling newspapers just > need to be locked up and not handled until we have proper technology to deal > with them, like many of our archeological sites. That was my original point. >