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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Hundreds of thousands of historical pictures from an old Boston newspaper are now available for public viewing.
The Boston Public Library (BPL) in Copley Square hosted a Special Collections Open House to showcase the Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue. Curator of Photography for the BPL Aaron Schmidt said they have somewhere between 700,000 and over little over one million photographs.
“There’s so many photographs, we don’t know how many,” said Schmidt.
Schmidt said collections like this usually get wasted because they are a lot more valuable now than they were at the time.
“Back in the 60’s and 70’s when nobody really valued these kinds of collections, they didn’t see the monetary or historical value, a lot of the stuff ended up in landfill,” said Schmidt.
Those who missed the open house still have a chance to view the photographs.
“You can make appointments to come in and see the files from the collection, depending on the subject of your research. We also have over a little over 16,000 images digitized online in our digital commonwealth site,” said Schmidt.
WBZ's Carl Stevens (@CarlWBZ) reports.
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