How to Wash a 157-Year-Old Newspaper

When you think of old newspaper, you think brittle and yellow, right? At the ‪@NationalParkService‬ Museum Conservation Lab, book and paper conservator Allison Holcomb walks Adam Savage through the fascinating and highly scientific process of removing the yellow from paper-related products and preserving them for posterity. Which fact(s) will stick with you most from this video?

These newspapers are part of the National Park Service history and study collections.
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