Objects & keepsakes
For quilts, tools, furniture, clothing, and the small things with a long life.
ObjectsCarryforth · Binder Materials
A home for the photographs, recipes, notes, and ordinary objects that became important because someone kept them.
Binder spines
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Choose the width closest to your binder. Cut on the dotted line, fill in the archive name, and secure under a clear spine sleeve or with archival tape.
A useful practice
Name the binder by the family, place, or collection it holds—not by a date alone. A simple title leaves room for the archive to grow.
Section dividers
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Print on heavier paper if you can. Trim each divider and place it between groups of records.
For quilts, tools, furniture, clothing, and the small things with a long life.
ObjectsFor named and unnamed images, copied photos, and the questions they still carry.
PhotographsFor recipes, seeds, growing notes, and the things made again and again.
Kitchen & GardenFor correspondence, certificates, clippings, and fragments that locate a life.
PapersFor additions, questions, new memories, and details found later.
ContinuingCategory tabs
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Cut each tab on the dotted line. Fold or mount it at the edge of a divider page.
Make it yours
Blank space is intentional. Write a category your family actually uses on the reverse of a tab, or print this page again for a second set.
Record & photograph labels
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Record number labels
Use one on each Heirloom Record, envelope, or protective sleeve.
Object photograph labels
Place on the back of a copied photograph, protective sleeve, or photo envelope.
Archival box labels
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Use these on an archival box, a plain storage box, or a large envelope. Print more whenever a collection needs a clear home.
Additional page
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Use this page whenever another memory, correction, question, or small detail belongs with an existing record.