Your family's history,
carefully brought forward.
We clean, scan, and restore old photographs, slides, negatives, and tape — right here in Severna Park — and hand them back as archival files you actually own. Nothing is ever mailed out of the county.
Whatever format it's locked in, we can bring it forward.
Three decades of analog formats, handled in one local studio. We clean each piece, scan it at archival resolution, and quietly repair the damage time leaves behind.
The difference is custody.
A national mail-in service asks you to seal irreplaceable originals in a box and trust the postal system both ways. We never ask that.
Nothing leaves the county
Your originals stay in Severna Park from drop-off to pickup. They are never packed into a truck and shipped to a warehouse in another state.
Digitized in-house
Every scan happens on our own equipment, by the same person who logged it in. No third-party subcontractors ever touch your collection.
A name, not a queue
You work directly with the archivist handling your project — by email, by phone, or across the counter. Questions get a real answer.
Local turnaround
Most orders are ready in 5–10 business days, with 48-hour rush available. Drop-off and pickup are arranged around the Baltimore–Washington corridor.
Bring the whole drawer.
Photographs & prints
Loose prints, albums, oversized portraits, Polaroids
35mm slides
Kodachrome, Ektachrome, carousels & trays
35mm negatives
Cut strips and sleeves, scanned per strip
VHS & S-VHS tape
Standard and Super-VHS, including aging tape
VHS-C & MiniDV
Compact and camcorder cassettes, transferred in full
Documents & clippings
Letters, certificates, deeds, newspaper clippings
Not yet offered: 8mm & 16mm cine film and Betamax. We'll tell you up front if something in your collection is outside what we currently handle.
Three steps. You stay in the loop the whole way.
Drop off or ship
Bring your box to the Severna Park studio, or arrange a local pickup. Everything is logged and photographed the day it arrives, so you always know what we hold.
We digitize & quality-check
Each piece is hand-cleaned and scanned at archival resolution, then reviewed frame by frame. Fragile and damaged items get conservation care, not a conveyor belt.
Originals & files come home
Your originals return exactly as they came, alongside a USB drive and a Google Drive or Dropbox link. The files are organized, labeled, and yours to keep.
“We treated a funeral home's hundred-year-old portrait collection like it was our own. Every plate came back intact — and finally backed up.”
Originals are stored in archival sleeves while in our care, logged against your order, and handled with cotton gloves where the material calls for it. We carry insurance on every collection we hold.
Every figure here started as somebody's shoebox.
photographs cleaned & scanned
hours of film & tape transferred
Bring us the box. We'll handle the rest.
Tell us roughly what you have — a drawer of slides, a stack of VHS, a whole estate — and we'll send back a clear, itemized quote. Nothing ever leaves the county.