Athletic Memorabilia Handling Guidelines: Safe Procedures for School Displays and Archives
Handling a retired championship jersey is not the same as removing a framed photograph from a wall, and neither is the same as preparing a championship plaque for a traveling loan exhibition. School halls of fame and athletic archives hold objects made from vastly different materials — metals, textiles, photographic emulsions, paper stock — each with its own failure modes when subjected to oils, humidity, light, or mechanical stress. Athletic memorabilia handling guidelines give staff a consistent set of procedures that reduce preventable damage, support accurate recordkeeping, and ensure that artifacts remain in presentable condition for decades of exhibition, scanning, loan, and storage.
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