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
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
In the archives of Armagh's Cultural Heritage Centre is a microfilm copy of the Tyrone Courier from March 24 1976.
From BBC ● Mar. 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
He handed back the rolls of microfilm and asked the librarian, “Do you know the address of the Institute of Archaeology, please?”
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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
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
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
These documents have been microfilmed by the American Council of Learned Societies, "British Manuscripts Project."
From The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London With Seven Related Documents; 1606-1621 by Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation
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
After that raid, Solzhenitsyn began microfilming all his work and arranging for its underground transmission abroad for safekeeping.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
POB may reexamine the standards used to film in the first place by looking at this process as a follow-on to microfilming.
From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress
