Wednesday, September 26, 2012

when was the last time an archive was this interesting? do you love random old photos that have been sitting around, forgotten in a box? what if the box could fill an entire room and the photos belong to the New York Times?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/06/07/152704170/what-lies-beneath-the-new-york-times-a-lively-morgue-and-its-lonely-keeper

The Lively Morgue is The New York Times photo archive... a time warp/"morgue" of all kinds of photos archived from their over 100 years in print.

Here's a sampling of what is now randomly resurrected daily at http://livelymorgue.tumblr.com/

 

 
 
 
 

 

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