Hello, my name is Heidi Harris and I'm the MillerCoors archivist based in Golden, Colorado. My collection is focused primarily on the Coors Brewery history. This includes objects in the collection from bottles and cans to advertising posters and recipe books. The collection is housed in a large warehouse room which is located in the HOPs storage building. This building is used to store the ingredients for the brewery. As a result this building is kept at cooler temperatures for the ingredients. Construction has just concluded for a new room to house the photographs, negatives, film, and documents at a more stable temperature and humidity levels. But the rest of the collection will still be in the main archive space, since bottles and cans can withstand the temperature fluctuations. The temperatures range from 40 to 55 degrees depending on what the outside temperature is for the day. So in the summer it is a little warmer in the building. The concern is trying to number the bottles and the cans appropriately to ensure the numbers will last through the years. Currently the bottles and cans have been numbered using a white out pen. These numbers are already starting to flake off and they were numbered just over a year ago. I have researched using Acryloid B-72 with a small paper number, but I have not found in any research whether this method will hold the test of time in the space with the temperature fluctuations. What method should be used to number the bottles and cans for long term?
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