[HN Gopher] Vast Photo Archive Is Hidden Inside a Cold, Heavily ...
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Vast Photo Archive Is Hidden Inside a Cold, Heavily Guarded
Limestone Mine
Author : prismatic
Score : 19 points
Date : 2020-05-16 22:14 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com)
| lqet wrote:
| In the mountain behind my home is a similar archive, the
| Barbarastollen. The documents stored there on microfilm in
| containers contain stuff like the original building plans of the
| Cologne Cathedral, the Golden bull, the coronation certificate of
| Otto the Great, or Bach's handwritten manuscripts.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarastollen_underground_arc...
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| The German wikipedia page has some interesting photos:
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| https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarastollen
| wbraun wrote:
| It's a shame that copyright works in such a way that it allows
| all these old and historic pictures to be sequestered away from
| the public long after all the original creators are gone.
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| 'Allows'? This was somebody's life's work, sold to somebody
| else and so on. They can do anything they want with it.
|
| I get it; I'd like to see some of those old photos too. But I
| didn't spend a lifetime collecting and collating them. So I
| guess I'll have to settle for what I can pay for now.
| kbutler wrote:
| This is not related to copyright.
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| The physical images are "sequestered", and access to and
| control of physical items is governed by traditional property
| rights.
| [deleted]
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