Newspapers & Clippings
Check our general preservation practices page.
Newsprint is highly acidic and will quickly become brown and brittle.
It also transfers acid to adjacent papers, staining and damaging those items.
Here are some good options:
- Photocopy onto acid-free paper.
- Interleave (insert blank pages between clippings) with acid-free paper or place in acid-free sleeves to avoid contacting other important papers.
- Scrapbook your clippings: place them in clear polyester photograph sleeves or encapsulation envelopes to use in archival albums.
- Place full-size newspaper pages in acid-free, buffered boxes made specially to hold them.
