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
In 1994, they were handed over to the German Federal Archives and microfilm copies were sent to the US National Archives in Washington DC.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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
“The A.I. is not going to go and get microfilm, I can tell you that.”
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2025
There was no other mention in the index, and Will got up from the microfilm reader baffled.
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
Unsalvageable pages were microfilmed, and many books were replaced with gifts.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
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
It was not really a diary, just a sequence of notes, calculations and ideas that Roger Hunter had jotted down and microfilmed from time to time.
From Gold in the Sky by Llewellyn
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
The goal was to make scanning as affordable and acceptable as photocopying and microfilming for preservation reformatting.
From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress
