Old things

Chuck, illustrated by Uncle Arnie, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

The idea of an image *belonging* to me in any sense appeals to my senseless photo greed.
Certain two dimensional Prentice family artifacts belong to me and about 7 other people, so I have a continuing interest in preserving them, at least digitally. Things in the public domain belong to everyone, and therefore everyone, although someone has already scanned Moses King's Handbook of the United States (http://books.google.com/books?id=3FE6AAAAMAAJ although perhaps their scans of the smaller images leave something wanting...), and I gave away that old music book, so I don't think I have any original editions of public domain material not freely available elsewhere. But, naturally I have as much right to public domain material that I find online as I do for
something I rescue from the trash and scan myself.
I want to photograph every antique thing, but I don't yet know what the tips and tricks are for shooting small.