IfL: Picture archive

Picture archive

Photographs

The collection consists of around 120,000 historical photographs, some dating as far back as the 1860s, with motifs drawn from all parts of the world. Read more

Paintings and graphic materials

The archive holds around 800 works by the landscape painter Ernst Vollbehr (1876–1960). Read more

Picture postcards

The archive for geography owns a collection of around 140,000 picture postcards from many countries. Read more

News

Events

16.09.2018 to 18.09.2018, Kiev, Ukraine

Space, Values and Power

International Conference on spatial transformations as contestations and negotiations of values and power relations...

22.10.2018 to 23.10.2018, St. Petersburg, Russland

Urban and Regional Resilience: Strategies for Success

RSA Russia Conference 2018

08.11.2018 to 10.11.2018, Berlin, Germany

Spatial dynamics of informal and shared mobilities

The Marshrutka Project’s final conference – Call for Applications

Publications

Pflug, Laura

(2019)

From "All under Heaven" to "China in the World" : Chinese visual imaginations from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -

In: Mapping Asia: Cartographic encounters between East and West : regional symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2017 / Martijn Storms, Mario Cams, Imre Josef Demhardt, Ferjan Ormeling, Editors. - Cham : Springer, 2019. - (Lecture Notes in geoinformation and cartography), Seite 247-263

Pilz, Madlen

(July 2018)

Speaking, building, shopping : a social-anthropological approach to the post-socialist condition of Tbilisi. -

In: Cities of the South Caucasus : a view from Georgia / edited by David Gogishvili & Alessandro Coppola. - Roma, July 2018. - (I Quaderni di U3 ; year 6, No. 15), Seite 59-71

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