Removing Photos from Scrapbooks - Best Practices/Tips?

[thecatspajamas]

Yeah, after some experimentation with one of the undesirable photos that I cut around and them tried soaking a small area of the glue with both water and PEC-12 applied with aqtip, it's not looking like the glue is going to dissolve before the desired item is destroyed. So I'm back to the physical approach, doing a rough cut around the desired photo and then picking at the back with a razor and tweezers to remove as much of the affixed paper as possible. The kicker is that most of the pieces I want to save appear to be RPPC's, and at least some have writing that I would very much like to reveal, hopefully to help with player ID's. So I've got a lot of tedious picking to reveal the backs of these. Hope it's worth it!