The New York Times’s Capsule of History Goes Digital

Posted by Jean-Yves on Nov 13, 2018
 

In a basement three floors underground, next to The New York Times’s headquarters, steel filing cabinets hold about six million photographs.

These images are part of The Times’s morgue, a 600,000-pound archive of pictures, newspaper clippings, encyclopedias and books — so heavy the collection needs a floor strong enough to handle the weight. Many of the pictures ran in The Times between the late 19th and 20th centuries.

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