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Archive boxes will provide your photos an acid-free home and protect them from sunlight and exposure. Including an index card with each photo will give your collection historical relevance, and a climate-controlled storage unit will protect your collection from damaging changes in temperature and humidity.

If you are sorting by person or family, family photo albums may work well. If you sort chronologically, photo storage boxes or a photo book might be what you need. A pretty scrapbook will allow you to add some personality and really tell a story as you create a keepsake that will be treasured for years to come.

A: The best way to store photos long-term is a combination of archive boxes, data-filled index cards and climate-controlled self-storage. Archive boxes will provide your photos an acid-free home and protect them from sunlight and exposure.

Use a Bulletin Board Border Storage Box It is long and thin and perfect for storing bulletin board boarder. Just lay your borders flat and place inside the separates with the dividers. The storage box can then be stored on a shelf or cabinet.

Vertical storage is best to prevent breakage of glass materials. Storage of family photographs in albums is often desirable and many commercially available albums use photo-safe materials. Avoid albums with colored, "magnetic," or sticky self-adhesive pages.

In your photo managing system, create folders for each year of photos you have. Then place the corresponding photos in these folders. Once you've sorted your photos by year, go into each folder and create subfolders. You can label and further sort your photos by month, event, vacation, etc.

The easiest way to start sorting is by putting ?like with like.? Once prints, albums, or other media have its own box, you can start organizing the photos chronologically by using important dates or milestones. They can also be separated by common themes like vacations, hobbies, and heritage.