Horizontal Cloud Negative, Late Summer, Peeblesshire

Category

Library Item

Item no

54260

Title

Horizontal cloud negative, late summer, Peeblesshire

Artist / maker

Jackman, S. G.

Date

1960

Size

5 x 4 inches

Type

Photographic film

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Peeblesshire, historic county of southeastern Scotland that forms a triangle between the historic counties of Midlothian (north and northeast), Selkirkshire (east and southeast), Dumfriesshire (south), and Lanarkshire (west). It lies entirely within the Scottish Borders council area.

This digital image is from a donation of material to the library by the photographer, S. G. Jackman. The material included prints, notebooks, glass negatives and photographic film negatives. Unfortunately, it was discovered that some of the film negatives were badly damaged by Vinegar Syndrome, so called because of the distinctive vinegary odour it produces. Cellulose acetate can be chemically unstable and deterioration of the cellulose acetate triggered by heat, moisture or acidity, can lead to Vinegar Syndrome. Vinegar Syndrome once developed, can’t be reversed. The Vinegar Syndrome effects are very evident in some of these images showing the crackling and bubbling on the surface of the film which in some cases had become separated from the base layer. It was decided that we would digitise the negatives to preserve Jackman’s photographic record of Edinburgh and then dispose of the contagious negatives.

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