There are many options for storing SX-70s in albums. Polaroid makes them. There are crafty versions on Etsy and elsewhere. There’s the 3-ring binder approach using with PrintFile 44-8P print preserver sheets. All work and most are archival safe.
I have a two issues with these types of albums.
They all use some form of plastic sleeve to hold photos. Sure, they’re sold as ‘crystal clear’ plastic sleeves but pop in a Polaroid and all I see is the shiny dimensionality of my photos being sapped by the reflective and slightly cloudy plastic sleeves.
Second, none of these albums truly present Polaroids to their best. There is no isolation of the photo from the background, such as a good mat would provide. In most cases, album pages display a gang of four prints cheek-by-jowl, on a single page.
I prefer a standard scrapbook with thick paper pages and photos mounted one or two per page with photo corners. When I turn a page, all I see is my photo nicely framed on a broad white or black background.
The problem is that SX-70’s are quite thick, much thicker than paper-based photos that are normally put in albums. Most scrapbooks are not designed to accommodate this thickness. Once a Polaroid is mounted on each page of a scrapbook you will find that the album bulges badly and the pages sag under the weight of an SX-70. Not ideal.
It is possible to modify a standard scrapbook to make it work but it takes some effort.
I started with a good quality screw bound album such as those made by Goldbuch. Their Summertime 25cm x 30 cm Extendable Screw Bound Album No. 26606 has a clean-looking linen hard cover and 20 relatively thick white pages. One or two photos can be laid out on a page using clear photo corners. But, to make it work with Polaroids, I had to remove the screw posts, cut 20 strips of 2-ply conservation board to place along the spine and act as spacers between each page, punch the strips to match the album’s screw post holes (this requires an adjustable three-hole punch) and then reassemble the album using longer screw posts.
That’s a lot of work and, although the photos are presented the way I like and the album looks professional, I find the page thickness are still too light in weight to support Polaroids.
Enter Grimm Books. Iris Grimm of Boston makes handsome custom designed archival albums and scrapbooks that are ideal for Polaroids. She does, in fact, make Polaroid albums and, although they come with the standard plastic sleeves, they look fantastic.
I went a different direction with my Grimm book. I ordered a Grimm personalized 8 ½” x 11” portrait photo album with 80 pages. I chose the book cloth and end paper colours. At that time, I had not completed the project but was anticipating about 68 SX-70 photos spread over 72 pages with most of the photos laid out with one photo centred on each page in a two page spread. Any remaining pages would be used for text on paper inserts or ‘out take’ photos.
Resources:
Grimm Books: grimm-books.com
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