wnyc:

It’s simply called “the morgue.” It is a cramped basement annex, stacked high with metal filing cabinets, full of three-fourths of a million pounds of old newspaper clippings and photos, going back 160 years. Welcome to the most extensive archives repository of the most respected newspaper in the world. 

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