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Acknowledgements
This Preservation Brief is partially adapted from an article entitled
"Material Conservation for the Twentieth Century: The Case for Structural
Glass," written by Douglas A. Yorke, Jr., AIA, which appeared in the
Bulletin for the Association for Preservation Technology, 13 (1981), and
from an unpublished manuscript by Thomas L. Hensley of the National Park
Service. Preservation Brief 12 was edited by Gregory D. Kendrick, Historian,
under the technical editorship of de Teel Patterson Tiller, both of the
Rocky Mountain Regional Office, National Park Service. We wish to thank
Mr. Yorke for permission to use his article and photographic material.
Finally, we want to acknowledge Thomas G. Keohan, Field Representative,
Mountains, Plains Regional Office, National Trust for Historic Preservation
for donating photographs and assistance to this project.
Washington, D.C. Febuary, 1984
This publication has been prepared pursuant to the National
Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, which directs the Secretary
of the Interior to develop and make available information concerning historic
properties. Technical Preservation Services (TPS), Heritage Preservation
Services Division, National Park Service prepares standards, guidelines,
and other educational materials on responsible historic preservation treatments
for a broad public.
"The Preservation of Historic Pigmented Structural Glass" an Historic Preservation Brief
