alleghenyarchivesmedia@gmail.com Pittsburgh, PA
Do you have old family photos that you want to make sure survive for future generations?
Whether from the recent past or from generations before, ensuring that your family photo collection is ready for the digital age is an important task. At Allegheny Archives & Media, we will treat your photos as if they were our own family heirlooms.
So, how do you get started?
Contact us! Our email is alleghenyarchivesmedia@gmail.com. We are attached to our phones and will respond to your email quickly. Tell us what you'd like us to digitize for you.
We can pick up your photos if you live in: Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington or Westmoreland counties.
Don't live in one of these counties? No worries! You can send your photos to us via mail, or you can still contact us and we can pick up your photos for an added fee!
What do we do with your photos?
When we are in possession of your photos, we will scan every item and document given to us. Your photos will be kept in a safe environment and the time it takes to digitize them will vary on the size of your collection.
After we have scanned everything in your collection, we will place the JPEG files onto USB flash drives. Each order receives two flash drives with your digitized photos. Extra flash drives come at an additional fee.
What happens when we're done?
We will contact you throughout the process to let you know how it is going. When we're done, we'll set up a time when we can drop off your collection and the two flash drives!
Prices
10 cents per photo scanned. Payment is due when the photos are picked up.
Please email a photo of your collection to get a more accurate quote.
Each order will receive one USB flash drive with their digitized images. Additional flash drives are $5.
Do you have personal videos stuck on VHS or the original camcorder tapes? We can help you transfer those memories into the digital world!
What kind of tapes can be transferred?
VHS
VHS-C
Hi-8, Video8, Digital8 camcorder tapes
MiniDV tapes
Mini DVDs
DVDs
Audio cassettes
Unfortunately, as a small business, we are not yet capable of transferring any video that is on film or reels. We hope that we will have enough resources one day to work toward being able to offer this service.
If you have any questions about what we can and cannot transfer when it comes to video, please contact us.
Prices
Ten or less: $5 per tape
Ten or more: $3 per tape
Let us help you scan your negatives!
Pricing is around $1 per strip of film.
We will deliver to you the scanned images on a USB flash drive.
Contact us today at alleghenyarchivesmedia@gmail.com or 412-720-6238.
You no longer have to hold your slides up to the light or find a projector to see them. Allegheny Archives & Media can digitize them for you! Let us scan your 35mm slides so you can see them on the computer screen.
Whether from the recent past or from generations before, ensuring that your collection is ready for the digital age is an important task. At Allegheny Archives & Media, we will treat your slides as if they were our own family heirlooms.
So, how do you get started?
Contact us! Our email is alleghenyarchivesmedia@gmail.com. We are attached to our phones and will respond to your email quickly. Tell us what you'd like us to digitize for you.
We can pick up your slides if you live in: Allegheny County, Beaver County, Butler County, Washington County, and Westmoreland County.
Don't live in one of these counties? No worries! You can send your photos to us via mail, or you can still contact us and we can pick up your slides for an added fee!
What do we do with your slides?
Your slides will be kept in a safe environment and the time it takes to digitize them will vary on the size of your collection.
After we have scanned everything in your collection, we will place the JPEG files onto a USB flash drive. Each order receives one flash drive with your digitized scans. Extra flash drives come at an additional fee.
What happens when we're done?
We will contact you throughout the process to let you know how it is going. When we're done, we'll set up a time when we can drop off your collection and the flash drive!
Prices
20 cents for each slide scanned.
Each order will receive one USB flash drive with their digitized images. Additional flash drives are $5.
Glacier National Park, Montana, 1954
Pittsburgh, 1954
Hawaii, 1956
San Francisco, 1959
We provide bulk document scanning services for individuals, businesses, organizations, government municipalities, and others.
The documents will be digitized and organized as searchable PDFs. Once finished, the hard copy documents will be returned and the digital files will be given to you on a USB flash drive.
Price is dependent on the number of documents.
This is a screen grab of the digital library collection.
Do you have a scrapbook made by a family member? Does it have photos and documents in it that you don't want to remove for fear of damaging them? Or do you have a bound book that you don’t want undone, but would like digitized? Allegheny Archives & Media can digitize these books for you!
We will NOT take the book apart. Instead, we will provide you with a high-resolution photo of every page and every photograph! At Allegheny Archives & Media, we will treat your scrapbook as if they were our own family heirlooms.
What do we do with your scrapbook or bound document?
Your scrapbook will be kept in a safe environment and the time it takes to digitize them will vary on the size of the book.
We DO NOT take the scrapbook apart and we DO NOT take photos out from the pages. We simply take high-resolution photos under studio lights to provide you with a page by page, photo by photo digitization of your item.
After we have digitized everything in your collection, we will place the PDF files onto a USB flash drive. Each order receives one flash drive. Extra flash drives come at an additional fee.
Prices are dependent on book and book size. Generally, we price family scrapbooks at $250. Any larger, bound volumes are items we need to see to give you a free estimate.
This is my Grandpa Walter's scrapbook that documents his time on the U.S.S. Santa Fe in World War II. It is extremely fragile, but I've been able to digitize the pages and photos.
These are pages from my Grandpa Walter's scrapbook.
This is a close up of one of the items in my Grandpa Walter's scrapbook.
This is my Great Aunt Gwen's scrapbook circa the early 1900s. Though worn and fragile, I've preserved its contents by digitizing each page and photo.
A page of family and friends in Great Aunt Gwen's scrapbook.
A close up of a photo from Great Aunt Gwen's scrapbook.
Hard copy photographs fade over time and show their age with folds, scratches, and other wears and tears of lasting through the years.
So, how do you get started?
Contact us! Our email is alleghenyarchivesmedia@gmail.com. We are attached to our phones and will respond to your email quickly. Tell us what you'd like us to digitize for you.
We can pick up your photos if you live in: Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington or Westmoreland counties.
Don't live in one of these counties? No worries! You can send your photos to us via mail, or you can still contact us and we can pick up your photos for an added fee!
If you already have the photo scanned and in your computer, then send it to our email!
What do we do with your photos?
When we are in possession of your photos, we will scan every item and document given to us. Your photos will be kept in a safe environment and the time it takes to digitize/retouch them will vary on the number of photos and the severity of damage.
After we have scanned everything in your collection, we can either email you the retouched photo or put it on a USB flash drive/CD.
What happens when we're done?
We will contact you throughout the process to let you know how it is going. If you have loaned us the original photo(s), we'll coordinate a time with you to drop off the photo and a digital copy.
Prices
Prices for this service vary depending on the number of photos and the severity of damage that has occurred to them. Therefore, prices will be given on a case to case basis.
Feel free to let us know if there is something you would like us to take a look at. You can email us the photo or request that we come to see the item in person and give you a quote.