Temperatures of film and photograph preservation conditions Cezar Popescu Slobozia, 20140410
Table 1: Examples of low-temperature film and photograph preservation conditions Institution
Temperature
Relative humidity
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library (Boston, Massachusetts) . . . . . . . . . NASA (Huston, Texas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Historic New Orleans Collection (New Orleans, Louisiana) . . . . . . . . Jimmy Carter Library (Atlanta, Georgia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quebec Film Library (Montreal, Quebec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Smithsonian Institution, Photographic Services (Washington, D.C.) National Archives at College Park, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Quebec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paramount Pictures (Hollywood, California) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German Federal Archives in Coblenz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Archives du film (Bois-d'Arcy, France) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staatliches Filmarchiv (Germany) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norwegian Film Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . National Archives of Canada (Gatineau, Quebec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maison européenne de la photographie (Paris, France) . . . . . . . . . . .
−18 °C −18 °C −18 °C −18 °C 1.7 °C 4.4 °C 4.4 °C −3.9 °C 15 °C 4.4 °C 4.4 °C −6 °C 16 °C −7 °C −5 °C 5 °C −18 °C 4 °C
30 % 20 % 30 % 30 % 35 % 40 % 27 % 30 % 40 % 40 % 25 % 25 % 50 % 30 % 20 % 50 % 25 % 40 %
Data source: H. Wilhelm and C. Bower, The permanence and care of color photographs: traditional and digital color prints, color negatives, slides, and motion pictures, 1993; L.F. Karr, Proceedings of the Conference on the cold storage of motion films, 1980; Bertrand Lavédrine, A guide to the preventive conservation of photographs collections, 2003.
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