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Preserving Michigan's history since 1924

Commercial Archiving

We specialize in scanning services for archiving that preserve the history of your business or organization. Are your company memories languishing unseen on old technology?

The photographs, negatives, slides, film and tape holding your organization's history are deteriorating right now, and unlike the originals, that damage doesn't reverse.

We digitize them and deliver files your team can actually use — viewable on any modern device, easy to share, and simple to back up in more than one place.

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Priceless Historical Relics

Museums and historical societies bring us material that exists in exactly one copy — prints, negatives, and reels nobody has been able to view in decades.

Digitizing does more than protect the original. It makes a collection searchable, shareable, and usable by researchers and the public, often for the first time.

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Safe + Secure Archives

A digital copy stops the clock. Heat, humidity, and handling can't degrade a file the way they degrade an original print or reel.

We deliver your archive organized and clearly labeled, ready to drop into your own storage and backup — and we'll agree on delivery format with you before we start.

Who we work with:

  • Churches + Religious Organizations
  • Corporations
  • Universities + Colleges
  • Funeral Homes
  • Independent Businesses
  • Attorneys + Law Enforcement
  • Historical Societies
  • Museums
  • Government Agencies

Common questions

It depends entirely on the size of the collection — some run a couple of weeks, some a couple of months. We don't guess at it. Every project is counted and quoted before we start, and once we've been through your material we can give you a real timeline instead of a range. The quote itself takes a few days for a smaller collection and longer for a large one.

Nothing. We count out your collection and quote the whole project at no charge and no obligation.

Google Drive or flash drive, whichever suits your team. We deliver JPG or TIFF for images and MP3 or MP4 for audio and video. We'll agree on format with you before we start.

Yes. Tell us what your security and handling requirements are and we'll work to them. We're happy to go through that before you commit anything to us.

Yes. Send us yours, or we can work from a standard one.

Yes, and on a large collection we'd encourage it. A test batch lets you check quality and file format against your own systems before you commit the whole archive.

Almost never. Nearly all work is done in our Bloomfield Hills and West Bloomfield facilities. Specialty audio and movie reels go to a partner lab we've worked with for decades, and we'll tell you up front if anything in your collection falls into that category.

Let's talk about your collection

Every archive is different. Before you hand over anything irreplaceable, we'll look at what you have, talk through formats and handling, and give you a written quote. There's no charge for the consultation or the quote.

Nearly all work is done in our own Bloomfield Hills and West Bloomfield facilities. Specialty audio and movie reels go to a partner lab we've worked with for decades, and we'll tell you up front if anything in your collection falls into that category.

Bloomfield Hills
248-593-6286
West Bloomfield
248-851-6340

Keeping your memories safe + local.

Hite Photo + The Print Refinery® has been professionally preserving memories for over 100 years. Using a trusted local expert is the safest way to protect your one-of-a-kind family memories.
Digitizing services are completed inside both our Bloomfield Hills and West Bloomfield, MI facilities.

A woman examining a vintage black-and-white group portrait alongside labeled movie film cans dated 1969. White-gloved hands carefully unrolling a vintage Charles Ludlam 'Camille' theater poster from a stack of archival posters.
Black-and-white archival photograph of the Golden Spike National Livestock Show building with snow-capped mountains behind it. A metal storage box packed with vintage Kodak, Kodachrome and Carnival Films movie film boxes and a film reel.

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