microfilm

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

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

“I go to the New York State Library, and I’m able to look on microfilm at the papers of Franklin Roosevelt as governor,” Burgess told me.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2025

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

Yiddish professors like Kirzane and Anita Norich, who translated “A Jewish Refugee in New York,” by Kadya Molodovsky, have discovered works by scrolling through microfilms of long-extinct Yiddish newspapers and periodicals that serialized the novels.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2022

Researchers found the information in historical documents and microfilms at the Connecticut State Library, among other sources like Ancestry.com and digitized newspapers.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2019

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 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

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

This is the sort of image that when microfilmed fails to provide any legibility whatsoever.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress

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