Acervo fotográfico do Arquivo Eclesiástico da Paraíba: um estudo de viabilidade de substituição dos suportes de armazenamento fotográfico

Abstract

The photographs are documents more fragile than others, by that fact deserve full attention with regard to their treatment and conservation. These are documents of historic value and importance that portray the entire history of a people or institution. For this reason the work was all grounded in order to topics such as preservation, conservation, appropriate handling and packaging. Our study was cut from the photographic archive of Ecclesiastical Paraíba, which saves documents of great importance for the history of Catholicism Paraibano.Nosso study aimed at knowing the conditions under which it is the photographic archive of Ecclesiasticus and the Paraíba other objectives were to identify the difficulties in keeping the photos saved, verify that the media handling of the photographs are in good condition, identify factors that cause damage and procedures for preservation and storage of items, raising funds for a proposed work plan to modernize the preparation of the photographic material of the file. We use our methodology in the qualitative descriptive method to obtain the contents of the work, where we conclude that the photographs are documents of importance to the estimable history and thus require an appropriate treatment.