microfilm

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“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

Artist David Hartt designed the show to include prints, mural-size blow-ups, 35mm color slides, microfilm, video clips, magazines, newspapers, and specially commissioned artistic photo albums.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025

Mexico's national archives had counted the document among a collection of papers signed by Cortés - but found 15 pages were missing when it was put on microfilm in 1993.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2025

But the other 40 million records — dating from 1850 to 1976 — are recorded only on paper, books or microfilm rolls.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024

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