The Bettmann Archive, called the Corbis Archive in Life After People, is a collection of over 11 million photographs and images, some going back to the United States Civil War and including some of the best known U.S. historic images. The Archive also includes many images from Europe and elsewhere.[1]
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The Corbis Archive is featured in Home Wrecked Home.
The archive goes dark after the fuel ran out.
It was introduced in 15 years after people when some of history's most important photos may be saved, located deep beneath western Pennsylvania where it is one of the world's largest photo collections which remains in sharp focus. The show gave information that the Corbis Archive moved it's treasure trove of 11 million photos to a refrigerated mine near Butler, Pennsylvania in 2001 where priceless images of history are protected from the Hindenburg explosion, a playful Albert Einstein, and prize winning photos of the popstars, politicians, scientists, humanitarians, wars, and disasters that defined the modern era. All of the photos are stored at -4 degrees Fahrenheit. Steven S. Ross stated that in -4 degrees, all chemical activity in a picture stops and the picture that would suppose to fade in 30 to 70 years and become totally unreadable would last 5,000 years.
The historic photos like the Hindenburg Explosion decays.
The fate of the contents is revealed in 300 years after people when the prized photos of the Corbis Archive have finally succumbed to humanity's fadeout. It's priceless historic photos were meant to last thousands of years at subfreezing temperatures but the conditions long ago warmed up. Steven S. Ross stated that once the generators run out of fuel, the refrigeration stops and the pictures lovingly and carefully stored inside would begin to deteriorate and instead of lasting 5,000 years, it will only last a few hundred years. The pictures slowly decay and the historic photos are erased from history.