Help with Preserving Signed Album with fading signatures

Hello All - 

I have 3 albums that I have been displaying, with "UV" supposedly frames.  These have not been in direct sunlight mind you.   Over the years I have notices that the signatures have been fading.  I know the damage is done, but what besides taking down and not displaying should I do to preserve these items.  If I store them on the shelves out of light will that stop the damage or will these continue to fade.  What is the best advice moving forward?  1 is signed with a Bic type felt pen and the 2 others are sharpie. 

thanks so much with advice. 

Mark Roberts 

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo 4 hours ago

+1 I keep all my photographs, chrome prints, silver gelatin, transparencies and slides in the cool and dark. I do have some 1939 NYWF silver gelatin photographs out, but indirect sunlight at best. The curtains are closed.

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo 4 hours ago

This room is kept at 55 degrees exactly.

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo 4 hours ago

Here is it with the Owens Corning Glass Block from the Schaefer Building lit for the first time in 80 years. As you can see I sold off some of the more common items:

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo 3 hours ago

If you look carefully, there is Grover Whalen's autograph obtained on the Fairgrounds. He was President of the New York World's Fair Corporation. There is also Frank Buck's signature. There is  1938 ViewMaster with 1939 NYWF Reels, an 8mm reel of b/w film, a blue tray from DuPont, a hand tinted photo of MotoMan, the Westinghouse robot, a snapshot of two young men being televised in the Westinghouse Building...a rare Bud Abbott and Lou Costello pin from the White Way, a rare three-dimensional set of postcards...so much. 

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