Credit: esquireSomething lies under a big mountain down to Butler County, Pennsylvania. What lies th...

1. The Corbis Cave: Searching for Never Seen Photos Under the
Iron Mountain
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Something lies under a big mountain down to Butler County, Pennsylvania. What lies there is a
treasure. It sounds just like the old times when people were desperately searching for gold and other
resources, I know! We're not dealing with gold here though; nor oil. What is stored in Pennsylvania
is data, information. Inside an old limestone mine where people used to extract wealth a century ago
lies a huge collection of archives. It is stored and preserved by Iron Mountain, the leading company
on records management.
Information is Sensitive

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The world is driven by information; this is no secret. As a matter of fact, all knowledge derives from
information. The one that holds it is rich by default, most of the times at least! Inside the old
limestone of Pennsylvania are stored plenty of sensitive data. Government agencies and banks keep
their confidential data there; documents from security clearance proceedings are also carefully kept
there. And no one wants these documents in the wrong hands, right!? All these explain the
maximum security on the site. Whomever journalist has ever visited the site agreed on this: this old
limestone mine is one of the most well protected places in the whole U.S. The US government has
classified Iron Mountain's facility only one level below Pentagon. In fact, one journalist even went on
to say that it's easier to enter the White House than inside Iron Mountain's storage facility!
Apart from confidential documents that trigger the imagination classified as they are, there are
plenty of other documents kept there and I mean significant ones, in a whole different way though.
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example one can bring other than one of the world's largest photographic archives?
The Corbis Bettmann Photographic Archive

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It was in the 90s when Bill Gates, the owner of the vast Corbin's Bettmann photographic collection,
decided to move his collection to Iron Mountain's site. And we are talking about an enormous
database of photos; it is a collection of twenty million images! Some criticized Gate's move; they
thought that with the collection stored there the public would have lost easy access to a unique
cultural treasure. On the other hand, that doesn't mean that a vast collection such as this one could
have been preserved and exhibited in a room or two! Not to mention the fact that with the collection
stored at Iron Mountain's facility we can be sure of one thing at least: these photos are going to live
forever!
Iron Mountain knows from data protection; over 2.000 companies worldwide trust their services. It
is said that the collection of Corbin Bettmann photos can survive for up to five thousand years. I
repeat: five thousand years! Experts on preservation of digital color photographs worked for what it
seems to be a colossal achievement. The secret after all was to store the collection at four degrees
below zero Fahrenheit. It makes you wonder; if only this world of ours could preserve all of its
cultural treasures just like that! Just think of it; we would have been so much richer culturally
speaking. All of those fires that burned valuable files in so many libraries and all of the looting that
took place in the past during wars and periods of turmoil... all these devastations could now be
history! Did I mention that the site is also protected from earthquakes!?
Photos that Reveal Modern History

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So now it's about time to talk about the photos of the collection. Let me ask you one question: have
you ever seen a photo of a guy with messy white hair sticking his tongue out? Yes, I'm talking about
Albert Einstein's most famous photo... well, it's there! Do you remember how sweetly Marilyn
Monroe sung to JFK's birthday? That photo is also kept there. Iconic photos like these ones are one
part of the story though.

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A journalist of Esquire wrote recently a piece about the splendid Corbis collection (a well written
and researched article that inspired this post) in his quest to discover photos that have never been
published before. Of course, as he admitted himself, you can't
http://www.checksutterfirst.org/research/ expect to do miracles giving the fact of the size of the
collection. Among the photos he discovered though, photos that he praised as his personal favorites,
was one of the Air Force One with the President's face on the window and Muhammad Ali
demonstrating his skills on driving a bus. More icons of the 20th century in iconic photos are yet to
be discovered and I hope many journalists will do the same trip!

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