How To: Collections Toolkits
The Massillon Museum is dedicated to helping individuals and institutions with preservation and digitization projects. Please use our resources below!
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Faces of Rural America Project Toolkit This project toolkit is intended to provide you with an overview of the Massillon Museum’s project, Faces of Rural America. Our project focused on gathering oral histories, photographs, and information related to two photographers and the communities in which they lived and worked. It is our intention to make resources available for you to launch a similar program for your city, family, church, or other group. Anyone can use some or all of this toolkit to initiate a program that will help to identify and preserve photographs and document the history of a community. To read more about the Faces of Rural America virtual exhibit, click here. |
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Presentation: Case Study: Digitizing Photo Negatives (for museums and historical societies) Accompanying Resources Guide This powerpoint presentation presents a case study of the 40,000 negatives donated to the Massillon Museum from the newspaper Massillon Independent. The negatives span 1946-1989. Includes tips on how to create your own negatives digitizing project, where to share your images, and how to ask for input from the community. This lecture is part of the MassMu Speaker's Bureau. To book this lecture by Archivist Mandy Altimus Pond, click here. |
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Presentation: Preserving Your Personal Collections (Photographs, Documents, Textiles, and Films) Accompanying Resources Guide: Learn about proper conditions for photographs, documents, textiles, and films; where and how to store them; what supplies to use and to avoid; how to digitize your photographs and negatives. This lecture is part of the MassMu Speaker's Bureau. To book this lecture by Archivist Mandy Altimus Pond, click here. |
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Preserving Garments & Textiles Learn about proper conditions for textiles, where and how to store them, what supplies to use and to avoid. |
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Preserving Family Photographs Learn about proper conditions for photographs, how to document information about the image, what supplies to use and to avoid. To purchase archival supplies, we suggest Gaylord Archival. |
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Presentation: Establishing a Successful Internship Program Accompanying Resources:
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Presentation: YouTube for Museums Learn how to purchase equipment to make your own videos. Walk through the steps to upload successful Youtube videos and create playlists. (first presented at the Ohio Local History Alliance Region 5 Meeting in October 2013 by Archivist Mandy Altimus Pond) |
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Preserving Photo Slides coming soon! |
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Care and Storage of Moving Picture Film Coming soon! |
Still need more information?
Visit the Northeast Ohio Document Center for Conservation website for preservation leaflets to help guide you through planning and executing preservation projects.
Salvaging Photographs After a Flood/Water Damage
Do you still have questions or need help?
If after reviewing these resources you still need help or would like a consultation, please feel free to ask Archivist Mandy Altimus Stahl by email or by phone: 330-833-4061 x113.