by Rick Rojas, The New York Times.
Curators in the music mecca have begun the painstaking process of saving a trove of 75,000 photographs. The images capture decades of middle- and working-class life. For more than 40 years, this trove of work by the Hooks Brothers Studio, had been largely hidden away.
A painstaking process to preserve the studio’s archives — possibly more than 75,000 images — has begun. It will take years to complete.