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The beginnings of the ullstein bild picture library can be traced to 1877, when Leopold Ullstein founded a newspaper publishing company in Berlin. In 1900, he formed an archive was formed as a collection of newspapers, magazines, articles and pictures. In 1929 the photo archive was separated from the rest of the collection and the ullstein bild picture archive was born.

Today, ullstein bild is a leading picture agency, a storehouse of images documenting contemporary history. akg-images is pleased to represent ullstein bild in a number of territories.

 

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Young German women read travel brochures in 1951.

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Pu Yi, the Last Emperor of China, photographed in December 1933 when he was Regent of Manchukuo, Manchuria. He is pictured with his wife Kuo-Shia-sa, members of the government and Japanese staff officers at his official residence in Hsinking.

Photo: akg-images / ullstein bild

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One month after the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, US soldiers enjoy an ice cream in front of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Photo, September 1944 (LEONE).

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The nineteen-year old policeman Conrad Schumann makes a break for freedom, jumping over the Berlin Wall, still wearing his full uniform, in this photograph taken by Peter Leibing on 15 August 1961.

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A street in the busy city of Cairo, Egypt, photographed on 2 February 2000.

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