I've just completed a new project for the city of Paris, TX photographing and restoring old photos from the Paris Junior College archive collection. Most of the images are dated around 1905 (before the second Paris fire) and had damage ranging from folds and tears to discoloration and ink stains. As the original images are in bad shape, we were not allowed to remove them from the archive. For this project, I brought in two square soft boxes on monolights and set them up as a triangle where I would shoot thru the top towards the open base where the photo lay on a grey foam-core. I was really excited to work this way as normally I would use a scanner to digitally repair images. It's been a learning experience I would definitely try again!
The finished images were printed and locally framed. They can now be seen hanging at the City Hall of Paris.