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Disaster Season: Proactive Protection for Collectibles and Documents

Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Document Recovery

As the summer surges on, Americans are getting closer and closer to that time of year where natural disasters become much more common. High temperatures have dried out forests, turning them into tinderboxes. The summer sun also heats the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, leading to hurricanes in the southeast. In order to weather these natural disasters, households and businesses have to be proactive. Valuable collectibles and important documents don’t fare well against fire or water. So, what can we do to protect these items before disaster strikes?

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Polygon Sponsors CoSA Emergency Preparedness Series

Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Document Recovery

As the owner or manager of an archives or records center, you can hope that you and your colleagues never have to experience an emergency situation. But all the hoping in the world won’t prevent flooding, fires, and other emergency scenarios from occurring. That’s why it’s essential that archivists have emergency plans in place. Polygon and the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) have teamed up to create a series of emergency preparedness documents that will give your organization the information it needs to put together a plan for when an emergency scenario damages your important documents.

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As far as the eye can see - Harvard's Priceless Collection

Disaster Recovery, Document Recovery

Harvard University attracts some of the brightest minds from all over the world. With those bright minds come world-class facilities, incredible research projects, and priceless collections. At the end of the 19th century, the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge started to receive glass photographic plates taken by the university’s telescopes in Massachusetts, California, Peru, and South Africa. The collection of plates allowed for astronomists to measure the variability and colors of stars over the full sky for the first time. The project continued until 1992, resulting in a collection that consists of more than half a million images.

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Document Recovery for Books, Papers, and Files After Floods, Fires, and Water Damage

Document Recovery, Document Scanning, Fire and Smoke Damage, Mold Damage

When wet or moldy books, papers, and files are damaged, they can be saved. If you are recovering from property damage and don’t know what to do with damaged papers or books, Polygon can help. As one of the country’s longest-serving providers for document recovery, Polygon has both the equipment and experienced staff to handle even the most severely damaged paper product. Moldy books, water-soaked files, photographs, or medical records, all of these items can be salvaged.

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Preserving History with Polygon

Catastrophe Response, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Document Recovery

Paper documents are still an important part of archiving, and the pros at Polygon Document Recovery Systems believe this will always be true.

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Disaster Season: Proactive Protection for Collectibles and Documents

Polygon Sponsors CoSA Emergency Preparedness Series

As far as the eye can see - Harvard's Priceless Collection

Document Recovery for Books, Papers, and Files After Floods, Fires, and Water Damage

Preserving History with Polygon

the Polygon blog - your moisture management resource

Disaster Season: Proactive Protection for Collectibles and Documents

Polygon Sponsors CoSA Emergency Preparedness Series

As far as the eye can see - Harvard's Priceless Collection

Document Recovery for Books, Papers, and Files After Floods, Fires, and Water Damage

Preserving History with Polygon

Contact DR. DEWPOINT ℠

Contact DR.DEWPOINT ℠ to learn more about temporary climate control options!

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