Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.

Tucked away in a small, dimly lit room on the second floor of The New York Times’s headquarters, the team tasked with digitizing the newspaper’s vast archive of photographs recently reached a milestone: one million photos scanned.

The ceremonial millionth photo, taken in 1940 and scanned by Mark Rubenstein, a former archival scanning technician, shows two men proudly displaying a 225-pound fish that one of them caught in Montauk, on Long Island. “PROUD OF HIS FIRST BROADBILL,” the caption reads.