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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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akg7-UB-00639853 Young German women read travel brochures in 1951. Photo: akg-images / ullstein bild |
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akg1CH-14-F1933-1 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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akg9FK-1944-8-25-A1-69 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). Photo: akg-images / ullstein bild |
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akg7-UB-00005480 Two mothers hold their babies above the barbed wire fence during the building of the Berlin Wall, 1961. Photo: akg-images / ullstein bild |
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akg5AE-K3-Z1-2000 A street in the busy city of Cairo, Egypt, photographed on 2 February 2000. Photo: akg-images / ullstein bild |