"Baby pictures, wedding pictures, moments of their youth that have been captured and they'll never be able to be get them back except for here," explains Andover Mayor Ben Lawrence.
City employees and representatives from the historical society spent much of Monday laying the pictures out on tables in the council chambers.
At least one album has already been traced back to its owner. Eyewitness News was there as Keenan Poore was returned his daughters' baby book.
He and his wife lost everything in the tornado, including all family pictures. The book contained everything from her birth announcement to sonogram pictures.
You can look at the pictures starting Tuesday at 5:30.
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