microfilm
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The records, seized by American troops after the Nazis were defeated in World War II, had previously only been available on microfilm.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Jim Jaffe, 90 years old, is in the consulting phase of a career that started in his father’s microfilm business and included a private-equity stint in the middle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
In 1994, they were handed over to the German Federal Archives and microfilm copies were sent to the US National Archives in Washington DC.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Thanks to “Cosmic Music,” anyone interested in her life and work doesn’t have to go comb through microfilm or ancient magazines to learn more about this unbelievably accomplished and completely fascinating human being.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
She returned the box of microfilm to the front desk, thanked the librarian, and walked home in the April sunshine.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
I’ve spent many enjoyable afternoons at the court archives in Chicago, combing through the microfilms indexes and trying to find lawsuits that involved Holmes.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2019
After hours scouring Cyrillic microfilms on outmoded computers in the public archives, we found my family’s records.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2017
After she discovered the dusty ledger, she began spending nights at the library, blurring through old newspaper microfilms and entering a world of “unhelpful librarians.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2015
The offenders also are banned from appearing in any further entertainment program, online drama or microfilms.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2014
I spent the evening at the public library looking at microfilms of the El Paso Times.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
A volunteer in the 1990s, Robert E. Denney, was unbundling Civil War service records to be microfilmed when he saw an opportunity with a curio that had outlasted its usefulness.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
The collection includes more than 4,600 English- and Japanese-language issues published in 13 camps and later microfilmed by the Library.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
According to the Postal Museum, V-Mail microfilmed specially designed letter sheets.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2019
Like many good reporters, McBride took off on a “slight,” if time-consuming, tangent — spending day after day poring over reels of microfilmed documents related to the FBI and the JFK assassination.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2018
Union Catalogue—During the year 26,033 new titles were added including 2,928 from the microfilmed record of library catalogues.
From Report of the National Library Service for the Year Ended 31 March 1958 by New Zealand. National Library Service
The ark story when I was a kid, they probably would have been feverishly microfilming encyclopedias and phone books and stuff.
From Slate ● May 26, 2015
The landmark 1976 bill set rules governing radio, television, photocopying, tape recording, microfilming and computer storage, breaking a 15-year logjam on a subject that bored most lawmakers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2015
With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts.
From Time Magazine Archive
After that raid, Solzhenitsyn began microfilming all his work and arranging for its underground transmission abroad for safekeeping.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the end of the Workshop, SPERBERG-McQUEEN confessed to having been converted to a limited extent to the view that electronic images constitute a promising alternative to microfilming; indeed, an alternative probably superior to microfilming.
From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress
