Integration of historical photo collection

Another image database is integrated into prometheus with the institute database “Historical Photo Collection“ of the Institute for Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University Berlin.

Most of the approximately 1,500 older photographs in the institute’s photographic collection that exist today were acquired antiquarian around 1950. Some of them date back to the early days of photography. Currently, around two thirds of the older photographs have been digitally indexed and the first 758 data sets are available for your research in the image archive.