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The Coolest Place For Bill Gates to Store His 15 Million Famous and Historically Important Photographs

by Curtis Bisel | Acquiring Originals, Storing Originals | 2 comments

If you’re having problems just coming up with a suitable place to safely store your family’s photo collection, just think what it would be like storing the 15 million photographs, negatives and glass plates that make up this Corbis collection!

PopPhoto recently posted this video from CBS “The Early Show” that gives us a rare look inside of Iron Mountain, a 150 acre maximum security cold storage facility (vault) 220 feet below ground in Boyers, Pennsylvania in what used to be a limestone mine. These photos that are stored in a part of this space go back to the 19th century — 150 years — covering celebrities, athletes, presidents and iconic historical moments.

Take a look at this fascinating 6 minutes of video:

Is Organization Preventing You From Starting to Scan Your Photo Collection?

by Curtis Bisel | Acquiring Originals, Scanning Photos | 16 comments

Are you someone who is just itching to have your entire photo collection converted to digital images on your computer? I mean, you know you want to do it – badly. You know you should be doing it – you can see all of your aging photos over there in a few boxes in the hall closet. But there’s just something holding you back.

I wanna take a guess and say if it’s not a lack of enthusiasm, what you could be experiencing is frustration trying to imagine how you could ever get all of your original prints and negatives chronologically organized and in one place at the same time?