"Hundreds of photos from that era were lost, sold, stolen or stored in archives. Some of those pictures appear today for the first time in the newspaper, in an eight-page special section titled ‘Unseen. Unforgotten.’
"The section is the result of research by Alexander Cohn, a 30-year-old former photo intern at The News. In November 2004, Cohn went through an equipment closet at the newspaper in search of a lens and saw a cardboard box full of negatives marked, ‘Keep. Do Not Sell.’…"
Read the whole story and view the photos from the Birmingham News at al.com/unseen. There’s a more coherent PDF of the story as it was published with complete captions next to the photos.
This is a really amazing find. Check it out.
Via Boing Boing via The Divine Goat