Word: microfilms
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Seeking help to continue efforts to preserve millions of rotting books in the University library system, Harvard has asked the federal Department of Education for a $389,000 grant to microfilm books and periodicals...
...University employs a full-time staff, led by Doris Frietag, book conservator in the Harvard University library, for just the cleaning and repairing of old books. Harvard has received about $1 million in government grants over the last four years to microfilm endangered material, and to date more than 10 million deteriorating pages have been preserved on film. And in the University Archives, the process has been used to preserve more than 250,000 photographs...
...chill December night in 1948, Whittaker Chambers led two investigators from the House Committee on Un-American Activities into a pumpkin patch on his Maryland farm. From inside a hollowed-out pumpkin he produced several rolls of microfilm: copies of secret Government documents that, he claimed, had been passed to him in the 1930s by a State Department official named Alger Hiss, when both men were members of a Soviet espionage ring...
...safe," replied Curtin. "Everything is on microfilm somewhere in a cave in Pennsylvania...
Federal funding has allowed Harvard libraries to microfilm more than 10 million pages, but this accounts for only a small percentage of what needs to be filmed, according to Carpenter...