Historic news photographs offer an immediacy and perspective on past events that make them among the most popularly requested items in our collections.
The Prints & Photographs Division’s New York World-Telegram & the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection is a case in point. Consisting of an estimated one million photographs that the newspaper assembled between the 1890s and 1967 (chiefly 1920 to 1967), this newspaper photo “morgue” is typical of the files that newspapers maintain of images that either were published or were believed to have some future publication potential.