The finance giant acquired the equipment to aid the King Center's digitizationproject and was "excited to provide this technology to enable families in the New York area to salvage family photos that would otherwise have been lost forever, " Chief Information Officer Guy Chiarello said in a statement.
Other Google Cultural Institute projects have included showcasing the Dead Sea Scrolls, presenting thousands of works of art online through the Art Project, and the digitization of the Yad Vashem Holocaust materials.