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The Collection of the Photo Library is an extraordinary source of historical photographs. The stock of more than 100,000 objects includes numerous rarities, such as e.g.:

  • Estate of Berta Wehnert-Beckmann: 83 Daguerreotypes, 3,500 glass negatives, 1843–1885
  • Estate of Hermann Walter: 3,400 negatives, mainly on glass, representing the history of architecture in Leipzig, 1870–1930
  • 20,000 postcards
  • 330 photographs of the ‘Leipziger Herbst’, showing the political events in 1989

Opening hours

Tuesday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Pre-registration desired

Contact

Michael Stephan
0341/9 65 13 29
michael.stephan@leipzig.de

Ehrenamtlich tätig:
Christoph Kaufmann
Reinhard Krabbes