The Massachusetts Historical Society has some 12 million manuscript pages in its holdings, as opposed to 100,000 photographs. Quantitative ratios don’t always translate into qualitative ones. What we see, after all, is often a lot more vivid and memorable than what we read. Just how vivid and memorable is evident from “History Drawn With Light: Early Photographs From the Collections ...
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:10PM on March 17, 2011