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The art of preserving photos and film at the Library of Congress

What is it like to store and care for old photos and reels of film from more than a century ago? “We avoid having them for long periods of time in harsh light exposure," said Meghan Holly, an archives technician at the Library of Congress Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia. "They live in our climate-controlled vaults."
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