In reply to Kate Harrison.

Hi Kate, feel free to email me. I'm sure Gawain Weaver would be happy to talk to you as well if you contacted him. The bottom line won't be much different from what Gary Albright told you. It is heartbreak waiting to happen, and it rarely comes off clean. I think a lot of us decided that your best bet it to image it first so that when you peel it off the glass along with the emulsion you will have something left to look at. Here at Duke we normally create cushioned boxes for these items and leave them as is. I'm not sure given what we did in class that this will change our normal outlook. But if we had a stuck photo and we all agreed to accept the high probability of loss, we might try one of the methods.