Services

Corporate Services

Community history can be split into two areas: family history and that of larger organizations.  Those larger organizations may be churches, community groups, charities, or businesses.  We offer to these organizations flexible options to help them discover what they have, eliminate junk and extraneous material, organize what is there, and finally preserve and digitize the collection.  We have broken these services down to allow you to choose what is needed and how to remedy your specific needs.

These services are limited to Montgomery County Ohio and adjacent counties: Darke, Miami, Clark, Prebble, Greene, Butler, and Warren counties.

Family Services

Preserving a collection of Family Letters, Photographs, and other Documents has long been a largely DIY endeavor.  Professional Archivists and Paper Conservators are primarily employed in museums and archives and their services are rarely available to privately held family collections.

Glories Past works to make professional archival services and guidance available to families as an All In One service.  What comes with our processing?

  • An organized arrangement with a finding aid

  • Proper archival folders and boxes for storage

  • A fully scanned and digitized copy of your collection for backup and day to day use

  • No cost optional Backup at Glories Past

Classes

Have you been working on preserving your family’s Letters, Photographs, and Documents on your own and want some guidance? Glories Past offers classes to help you organize and properly care for the materials that you need to protect.

Home Archives 101 or How I learned to stop worrying and love preserving at home: This class teaches the basics of what you need to know to preserve your family’s photograph and document collection at home.  We will discuss why family collections are important, Where to store collections, and the basics of How to preserve your collection.

Family Photographs 102 or Windows into the Past:  Photographs come in many shapes and sizes, they come on different materials, and they all have their own eccentricities and needs.  This class discusses the specifics of family photography.  Activity: Examine A dozen common types of photographs collections will have.

Scrapbooks and Photo Albums 103 or The thing archivists hate to love:  Come learn why archivists consider these some of the most important documents they preserve.  Then learn why they are so difficult to maintain and what to do when they begin to fall apart.  Activity: Learn how to make a phase box to protect books that are falling apart

Digitization 104 or Back it up: How can you share your collection with your far flung family?  What do you need to do to make sure your collection is protected from disasters?  Learn the tools and techniques needed to perform this essential archiving process.  Activity: use a variety of hardware used to digitize archival material.