id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13657 Gwinn, Nancy E. CLR and Preservation 1981-03-01 23 .pdf application/pdf 15545 832 53 He continued to study what had happened to book papers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, and he began to look at the effects storage tempera- tures have on the permanence of paper. Although pollution does play a role (and in some areas , such as New York City, a critical one), Barrow identified manufacturing processes as the principal cause of paper decay ; in a later investigation of book papers manufactured from 1800 to 1899, he was able to trace historically the loss of strength in papers in a time line that matched the introduction by paper mills of alum sizing and the use of cheaper and shorter fibers. cache/crl-13657.pdf txt/crl-13657.txt