"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." —Aaron Siskind

Join archivist Lisa Coombes from the North Carolina State Archives on June 27, at 2:00p.m., as she discusses how to preserve family photographs. Learn basic archival techniques for storing photographs, digital file naming, and scrapbooking. Using archival techniques will help make your family memories last for the enjoyment of generations to follow. Topics include proper care and storage of photographs, basic do's and don'ts of photographic preservation, and file naming structure for digital files. This program is free and open to the public. To RSVP call (919)832-3775 ext. 11 or drop by the day of the event.

The Raleigh City Museum is located in the Historic Briggs Building at 220 Fayetteville Street. The museum is open Tuesday-Friday, 10:00am-4:00p.m. and Saturday, 1:00p.m.-4:00p.m. Admission to the museum and programs is free. The permanent exhibits are, It Started With One Thousand Acres: Raleigh and its People, Raleigh's City Flag: 100 Years, and Let Us March On: Raleigh's Journey Towards Civil Rights. The museum's temporary exhibit, Portraits of Raleigh: Images of a City and Her People will run through the fall of 2009. Call (919) 832-3775 ext. 11 or visit our website at http://www.raleighcitymuseum.org/ for more information.

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1. http://www.raleighcitymuseum.org