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Which brings me to the last subject, what i would call paper preservation discoveries. Prior to 1870, before the transition to woodpulp, newspapers were printed on raglinen stock, paper made of linen rags, primarily of the facts of the colonists, what people wore as close. Also shipped sales. These rags were boiled and pulled and ultimately sifted into these sheets of paper. The durability of that paper plays a significant role in their preservation, and that today we can find 250 year old newspapers that are in better condition than, say, last weeks boston globe which is probably already yellowing and bill. So thanks to the raglinen paper on which they are printed, thanks to the institution that bound them into volumes, we have these wonderful printed accounts of what transpired during the American Revolution. What i tend to do is i also look for newspapers that others might consider trash, where they are extremely eat up. They have holes, theyve lived a long life, and through fire an

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