Magnetic photo albums

We are about to remove some letters from some donor-created
scrapbooks with "magnetic" pages.  We plan to de-acidify and
encapsulate the letters.  Does anyone know what the tacky substance
on the scrapbook pages is that is now adhering to the letters,
giving the sheets of paper a horizontal pinstripe appearance?  Can
or should anything be done about cleaning this before application of
the de-acidification process?  How would you do this? Thanks,

Glenda Stevens
Jim Wright Archivist
Texas Christian University
Box 298400
Ft. Worth, TX  76129
817-921-7595
Fax: 817-921-7282

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                  Conservation DistList Instance 11:94
                   Distributed: Tuesday, May 19, 1998
                       Message Id: cdl-11-94-021
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