microfiche
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Detectives went hunting for the Help Wanted ad, hunkered over the microfiche machine at the newspaper’s downtown office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
Yet although she conducts ample historical research, combing through census records and newspaper microfiche, she isn’t comfortable conjuring the setting and conditions of Hudgins’s life.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
He said the process will be even more difficult when they get beyond the electronic court record, and have to confirm older convictions on microfiche.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022
I interviewed my father and my aunt, asked them if Milt ever sought justice, and they told me Grandpa searched for answers back in the pre-internet 1970s, visiting libraries to scour microfiche.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018
I couldn’t use the Internet; the teacher made me go to the library and use microfiche, which is like trying to read the U.S.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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Working only with his wife, Grazia, Lotoro had created Last Musik, an institute he has self-funded for three decades, with a repertoire of 4,000 papers and 13,000 microfiches of music sheets, letters, drawings and photos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
In some ways, Spotlight is a paean to journalism’s archaic methods, as it lovingly dwells on microfiches, card indexes, picture folders and clippings files.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2016
I'm old enough to remember card catalogs, microfiches, and needing to go to a library to find what I needed--and even then I was sometimes disappointed.
From Inc ● Jan. 11, 2013
But delving into those records has itself sometimes been an adventure, requiring searches through indexes, microfiches, file cards and folders in Midtown Manhattan; Long Island City, Queens; and Jerusalem.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2012