Fractured Atlas Sign in/up

The Morgue

How can a city know its future, when it's lost the record of its past?

Choose your donation frequency

About

The Morgue is a short documentary—an orphan story, a detective story and a call to action—about the fate of U.S. newspaper photo archives, repositories of collective memory of our cities. The film explores the significance, loss, and potential recovery of one newspaper photo archive, the 120,000 surviving photos collected by The Trenton Times in New Jersey. There are forty more such archives that could be saved.

Learn More: https://www.purcellcarson.com/themorgue