Word: microfilming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fine print of an editor's note in the debut issue of the Harvard Review wryly states that the journal is not available in "microfilm, fiche, CD-ROM or cranial implant...
...credentials" (according to The New York Times) to see the photos. If you're interested, the library wants to know the purpose of your study project--along with letters of recommendation, ideally. Even then, you don't get to see the actual photograph negatives of the texts. You get microfilm...
Donald says this newly-examined documentation does not consist of secret memoranda per se, but rather personal letters and notes that crossed Lincoln's desk during his presidency. These papers are now contained on 97 reels of microfilm that Donald has been reading over the last two and one-half years...
...archives. The 293-seat theater continuously runs a movie called Never Give Up: Richard Nixon in the Arena. A hallway gallery displays 30 of the 56 TIME covers on which Nixon appeared. Exhibits lead visitors through the whole saga with photographs and artifacts, including a hollowed-out pumpkin, microfilm and a Woodstock typewriter (the famous items of evidence that nailed down the case against Alger Hiss), and an old woody station wagon like the one Nixon used for his 1950 race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas. A 1952 television set plays the "Checkers" speech, the mawkish little masterpiece...
Armed with volumes of microfiche and microfilm, Pankau's investigators conduct financial probes that would make privacy advocates cringe. They use vehicle-registration lists purchased from the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as vital statistics culled from Texas' 254 county courthouses. The most telltale documents are often probate records and property transfers. Pankau exposed a Dallas land developer after he shifted most of his millions into his four children's trusts, filed for bankruptcy and proceeded to live off the charity of his offspring. A Houston real estate promoter who had a series of big bank loans coming due handed...