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Josh EvansNow Dan, we do not call this a hoard. This is an “archive.” Hoard is something involving bubble gum that Rosen would have gotten out of Tennessee back in the 80s.
Originally there were between 1.5 and 2 million images in the archive but we were originally only allowed to buy 500,000. The rest was to be donated to Berkeley (University of California). But we were fortunate enough to get “first pick.” I was there for six weeks with a small staff (what a blast) and we sorted 12-16 hours a day. As we neared the end we realized we had taken too much plus we still had more “fresh stuff” to go through. I had already gone home and my partner Mike Heffner was able to negotiate a deal where we paid them more money and were able to get what we wanted. I would estimate that in the end we got about 700,000-800,000 images.