Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "djon43" 
<djon43@...> wrote:
>
> Our ancestors' prints lasted nicely for 50 years without much care,
> and remarkably well in many cases for 100-plus  without "archival"
> crossing anybody's lips. 
> 
> Average-good prints from 1890 can be scanned and printed beautifully
> today...sometimes looking better than new...I say that on the basis of
> lots of my own family's images and many that have come to my
> collection ranging from 60 to 100 years (eg from Austria, Russia, and
> China) 

Those of course are the ones which survived - plenty haven't.

I've seen hundreds of old prints and negatives brought in to photo 
archives which are basically only good for the garbage.