What kind of human/environmental/accidental reasons do you think are the main reasons for the destruction & deterioration of Paper-based artefacts? Please provide your valuable frank opinion. The question is open for Museum as well as non-Museum professionals.
I think one significant reason for destruction of paper documents is storage (lack of convenient space or cost) and failure to appreciate actual or potential historical significance. Apparently some early files from Canada's North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP), or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ended up in some smalltown dump in Saskatchewan in the 1950s because no one wanted them. Also the papers of Honoré Jackson, secretary to Louis Riel during the North-West Rebellion in Canada in 1885, ended up being sold as waste paper:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Jackson
Thanks Mr. Karl for your response. That is very sad to know about those paper documents which might have contained & revealed many events and facts of that period.
Thank you again for your response.
Warm regards
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