Stock
The postcards from Berlin-Mitte give an impression of the ever-changing cityscape. The messages from the sender provide valuable information about the past.
The BERLIN-MITTE-ARCHIV has an inventory of about 9000 designs. The collection mainly contains photo or printed postcards, or printed postcards of streets, squares, building facades and interior shots.
Photographs are -like the postcards- valuable documents of the changing city. Private photos particular convey a special view of Berlin-Mitte. Current photographs are complemented continuously in addition to historical photographic documents . The photo collection in BERLIN-MITTE-ARCHIV currently includes a stock of about 10,000 photo documents, dias, film and glass negatives.
Newspapers, magazines
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Newly constructed buildings were particulary in the first half of the 20th century published in technical journals and folders. The BERLIN-MITTE-ARCHIV has a large inventory of collotypes and architectural journals from the period between 1880 and the 1920s.
We offer research in our collection of about 20,000 newspaper clippings to all Berlin-Mitte relevant topics.
Graphics
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At a time before photography became the main image medium, graphics of various techniques ( wood engravings, steel engravings, lithographs, etc. ) provide a picture of the streets and squares and urban life.
The graphics collection at BERLIN-MITTE-ARCHIV includes a selection of graphic sheets, which complements the other collections of images for the period before the 1890th.
The stocks of the archive will be presented in the ever-changing Berlin-topics