Photograph Albums - Self Adhesive

[Richard Briggs]

Hi, I am planning to reorganise our family photos which go back to 1890. I have digitised them all (1600+) but I also want to mount them in a set of traditional photo albums. The choices seem to be:

- Slip In albums. Issue here is many of these photos are non standard (i.e. not 6x4 etc) and so it will end up being a mess. So these albums are out.
- Photo Corners in traditional albums. My favourite approach but you do need to have thick pages to ensure they don't bend and the photos come out of the corners. And this means albums are expensive.
- Self Adhesive. Cheaper than last. BUT I have found such albums dating back 30 years plus end up almost permanently sticking the photos to the sheets. I only just managed to get the old photos out of them without ripping. But these albums work out cheaper than traditional ones (see above). So, to the question...

Any tips for using self adhesive albums where the photos themselves are not actually stuck to the adhesive? I'm thinking of placing the photos in transparent photo covers (like stamp collectors use - but they are too small), Putting paper behind the print so only the very edges of the print are in contact with the adhesive. Any views or tips?

Richard

 

[Alastair]

I would suggest using your digitised copies to create a printed album or photo book and keeping the originals in archive slip-in folders. There are a lot of different sized slip-in pages to choose from and most "non-standard" photo sizes are just standard to a different set of dimensions and can be accommodated. If I can find standard pages for Victorian carte de visite and cabinet prints I imagine you can find them for whatever sizes you have

I'll have to go rummage through my albums to find the make/brand of album pages I'm using.

 

[Phil V]

I would suggest using your digitised copies to create a printed album or photo book and keeping the originals in archive slip-in folders. There are a lot of different sized slip-in pages to choose from and most "non-standard" photo sizes are just standard to a different set of dimensions and can be accommodated. If I can find standard pages for Victorian carte de visite and cabinet prints I imagine you can find them for whatever sizes you have

I'll have to go rummage through my albums to find the make/brand of album pages I'm using.

This^
With different shapes and sizes you can make something much more interesting than a traditional album, cheaper too.

I know it's a slightly different league, but my last 'proper' wedding album cost £450 to produce (10 years ago), I can produce a better product now for less than half that.