03-14-2007, 07:46 PM
desantnik Wrote:I haven't been to the archives like Dave, but judging from other WWII-era paper I've seen, it's cheap and I don't know how long the records will last regardless.
Sadly, they'll last much longer in the Archives than they will out of the Archives. At least in the Archives they're relatively temperature controlled and in closed boxes, so UV-proof. If you have collectors who handle and frame up the documents, those will probably have a life a fraction of those documents that stayed in the Archives.
Of course, the thing that worries me about the Archives is a fire. If a fire started in one of the Archives buildings, all of that history would be GONE IN SMOKE forever. :(
Dave












