{"id":69,"date":"2008-12-23T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/2008\/12\/23\/library-of-congress-offers-tips-for-preparing-protecting-and-preserving-family-treasures\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T13:26:26","slug":"library-of-congress-offers-tips-for-preparing-protecting-and-preserving-family-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2008\/12\/23\/library-of-congress-offers-tips-for-preparing-protecting-and-preserving-family-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress offers tips for &#8220;Preparing, Protecting, and Preserving Family Treasures&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a shoebox of photographs under the bed? Or your great-grandparents&#8217; marriage certificate rolled up in a drawer? How about a family bible?<br \/>\nThe Library of Congress has an excellent site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/preserv\/familytreasures\/index.html\/\">Preparing, Protecting, and Preserving Family Treasures <\/a>that offers tips on saving all types of family heirlooms, keepsapes, and other treasures from deterioration and loss.<br \/>\nTips include:<br \/>\nMaking copies of family photographs and documents and sharing with other family members to provide back up copies in other locations<br \/>\nAvoiding basements and attics when storing family treasures.<br \/>\nStoring paper items flat instead of rolled or folded.<br \/>\nRemoving materials such as cardboard, rubber bands, paper clips from photographs and other materials.<br \/>\nAnd more!<br \/>\nVisit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/preserv\/familytreasures\/index.html\/\">Preparing, Protecting, and Preserving Family Treasures <\/a> today and be sure that your family treasures are preserved and protected for many generations to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a shoebox of photographs under the bed? Or your great-grandparents&#8217; marriage certificate rolled up in a drawer? How about a family bible? The Library of Congress has an excellent site called Preparing, Protecting, and Preserving Family Treasures that offers tips on saving all types of family heirlooms, keepsapes, and other treasures from deterioration and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-preservation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}