Honeoye Fall-Mendon Historical Society Museum. file photo
The January 9, 2025 meeting of the Honeoye Falls – Mendon Historical Society will feature Kate Jacus. Jacus is the Preservation Specialist for Documentary Heritage & Preservation Services for New York, conducting preservation needs assessments and educational programs for libraries and archival repositories in New York State. She also provides photo organizing and collections management services to families through her business, The
Photo Curator. Previously, she was the Marketing Coordinator for Archival Methods, a supplier of archival storage and presentation supplies. Her past museum work includes Collections Manager at The Strong in Rochester and Membership Assistant at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She lives in Brighton with her family.
Are you not sure where to start organizing and preserving your photos and family heirlooms? In this presentation, Jacus and participants discuss a framework for your preservation project that can help break it into manageable sections. You’ll also learn about the science behind archival storage materials and explore options for storing photographs, negatives, slides, family documents, and common family heirlooms.
This will be a Zoom meeting. There will be no in-person meeting. For the Zoom access codes, visit the historical society’s website: hfmhistorical.org. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m.
