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Other evening newspapers that expired following the rise of network news in the 1960s donated their clipping files and many darkroom prints of published photographs to libraries. The Hearst Corporation, however, decided to donate only the "basic back-copy morgue" of the Journal-American plus darkroom prints and negatives to the University of Texas at Austin. Office memorandums and letters from politicians and other notables were shredded in 1966. The paper is preserved on microfilm in New York, Washington, DC, and Austin, Texas. One must know the date of an article to locate it. The Journal-American morgue of clippings, with about nine million items, is at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and the photo morgue, with about two million prints and one million negatives, is housed in the Harry Ransom Center, both at The University of Texas at Austin.
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