Wednesday, January 14, 2026

100 Years of History Unearthed at The New York Times Morgue

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

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  1. I think I might have recommended this to you before. It's a short British teevee series from 1999, in three one-hour parts, titled /Shooting the Past/, about an archive of photographs. The story develops slowly and gradually grips you. It's wonderful and sad and surprising.

    About /Shooting the Past/: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_Past
    Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edRP5IphiTE
    Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmAJQUs9LQ
    Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjBl29ajrZk

    Also on the subject of an archive of photos, and one photo in particular, /The Secret Life of Walter Mitty/:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty_(2013_film)

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