PRESERVING ANCIENT BOOKS
Due to the work of six American photographers working, for safety, in abandoned coal mines in England and Wales, every book in the British Museum printed before. 1550 has found _ sanctuary in the United States, of America meticulously reproduced in miniature. With them have gone thousands of rare items from other famous British collections. Five thousand pages from the Guildhall Library arrived a few days before that museum was smashed by Nazi bombs. Photographs of over 1,000,000' pages have already crossed the Atlantic safelj'. The" negatives are stored in a small brick building near the. University of Michigan. Prints from them have been sent to more than a dozen libraries which have reading machines that enlarge, the films to original size. The#; work was begun in 19:5(5 when war clouds began to gather.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 43, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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136PRESERVING ANCIENT BOOKS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 43, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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