Macintosh systems use a standard gamma which needs no correction. Viewers can adjust the contrast or brightness on their own displays with the help of a color test target. For such a target, click here . They are disasters on a printout. Researchers want paper copies.
Frames force the viewer to scroll horizontally to read and the image to print two pages wide.
Bright backgrounds too frequently print solid black. Some museums are not as insightful as the St. Louis school system was a century ago. The preferred information delivery system of the students of today is the World Wide Web. Some archives are so protective of the stuff that they store that they restrict the distribution of information. I invite such curators and librarians to hire Web page designers and to hop onto our cyberspace milkwagon.