Origin and tradition: The Grand Ducal photo collection from the reign of Frederick I and his wife Luise probably originated from gifts, orders and acquisitions (e.g. while travelling). It is not yet possible to say to what extent there was a real will to collect, but the collection was carefully preserved, partly noted in inventory lists and probably moved from Karlsruhe Castle to the New Palace in Baden-Baden in 1919. There, even after the death of Grand Duchess Luise, he occasionally grew. When the castle inventory of 1995 was dissolved, the State of Baden-Württemberg was able to acquire the entire photo collection for the General State Archives; a selection of family photos and some magnificent volumes remained the property of the House of Baden. He also owns an essential part of the photo collection of the last Grand Duke, Frederick II, who fortunately was not kept in the Freiburg Palais after 1919. Content: The medium of photography was highly valued and consciously used at the Baden court as a modern form of princely representation. The distribution of portrait series to the public can be reconstructed and the long reign of Frederick I enabled the presence of the "father of the country" or the "parents of the country", as can be found among the Hohenzollern, the Wittelsbachers or the Habsburgs. Documents from these photo commissions to the court photographers make up a not insignificant part of the collection. The proportion of gifts and souvenir pictures received after anniversaries, celebrations, manoeuvres, exhibitions, inaugurations, etc. is greater; the handing over of portraits of foreign visitors also belonged to this group, especially in the context of the summer stays in Baden-Baden. One of the most important gifts are probably the works with which photographers wanted to attract attention, acquire the title of court photographer or receive further commissions; in this way, works from the early days of photography came into the Grand Duke's possession: signed prints by Charles Clifford, the Upper Italian and Southwest German series by Jakob August Lorent in 60x80 format already admired at the time of their creation (Lorent also left to the Grand Duke a detailed description of his recording and development process) or, to name regionally effective photographers, photographs by Richard/Heidelberg, Tillman-Matter/Mannheim, Th. shoe man

Photographer: Schanz?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 7.6 X 10.5 Reference: Plate and cardboard No. 171 (or carved A241 and SI 41) in negative box 2 prints. See album 11, no. 242 (10.5 X 7.6).

In the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ordenskunde e.V. there are various collectors of colonial objects. These include individual photos and albums, certificates (award certificates of orders and decorations as well as official letters, reports and contracts), diaries and other objects from the colonies. Among other things, cooperation between the colonial powers also plays a role. There are also private estates of colonial soldiers and inhabitants of the former German colonies.

Direktionskorrespondenz und weitere Unterlagen 1937-1941: 1 portfolio, loose-leaf collection; copies or handwritten, authors: Diels, Dr. Friedrich Bolle, R. Pilger; Prof. Dr. Hoppe (all Botanischer Garten Berlin), Milos Deyl (botanist, Prague); Wilhelm Engelmann (publishing bookshop Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig), Wimmer (priest, editor of the Lobeliaceae for the plant kingdom). contents: air-raid protection measures in the Botanical Museum (removal of alcohol collection etc.)); financial means of the Englerstiftung; whereabouts of lost herbarium loans (Spanish Civil War); reminder to return herbarium loans; printing of various volumes of the Pflanzenreich (Richtlinien zur Korrektur, Korrespondenz mit der Verlagsbuchhandlung Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig), editing of the Lobeliaceae für Pflanzenreich scientific manuscripts on the flora of SW Africa, individual letters [see FA1/1] diaries 1943-1945 (copy, p.p. in copy); incl. transcript; diaries 1943-1945 (copy, p.p. in copy); incl. transcript

Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,8 X 8,1 Description: Cf. no. 398 Reference: Cf. album 19, no. 399.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 4,9 X 7,2. Description: Portrait shot in front of a neutral background, woman with cloth bekl... Remark: further deduction 12,2 X 15,2 lying in the album. Cf. Eq. 1907, No. 5, Size Lichtstr. No. 9, Lydia 1913, No. 2. Reference: Plate and cardboard No. 206 (or A II No. 20 carved into plate) in negative box 1 print. Cf. print templates sample book, No. IIb/380, Diap. 190, aII20 (10.5 X 6.6).

Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,3 X 6,9 Description: (Related to Album 4, No. 619, 622, 627, 634-637, 640), group of people on meadow.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10.9 X 7.8. Reference: See album 19, no. 299 (10.9 X 6.9).

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8.7 X 5.6. Reference: See album 12, no. 2 entitled "Sister Jenny in the Frauensaal (5.5 X 5.8).

Note: Lots included with the album.

Note: Lots included with the album.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,5 X 7,8. Note: poor quality, especially at the edges (white). Reference: Cf. album 19, no. 270.

Concerned album, so far 45 photos and presentation of the same

Note: Lots included with the album. - Picture content identical with 4130_1.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,0 X 8,0 Description: 2 girls, dressed with scarves, necklaces, upper body photo, background retouched or photo taken in front of a white wall, the right girl is the same as Album 8, No 113(13).

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 9,0 X 11,9 Description: Total of the two children, seitl, Marianne Guth kneeling in front of Moses (cf. Album 3, 1036). Reference: Plate and cardboard No 74 in negative box ( 3 prints).

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,8 X 6,7. Description: sitting on bench (almost identical with album 19, no. 384). Remark: Surface damaged.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 6,1 X 8,9. Description: Group picture, Frau Pätzig sitting (neutral background). Remark: Picture has stains. Reference: Cf. album 20, no. 555 (13,9 X 8,8) (photo as postcard).

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8.5 X 11.0. Reference: See album 11, no. 319 (10.5 X 7.6) m. Title "Dschagga huts in Moschi". Cf. print templates sample book, no IIg/54, Auf. 457, no 80 (10,8 X 8,1) "Dschaggahütten in Moschi", faded.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,7X6,3. Description: painted background, objects from album 4, no 442, 443, 444 included? Remark: object of 442,443 0or 444 present? (Alb. 4).

Note: Lots included with the album.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,7 X 8,0. Description: Magdalena and Arnold Blumer, Wilhelm in the window. Reference: See album 19, no. 271.

Contains: among others Postcards of Moscow, photos from the trips, drawings, portraits with dedications, postcards of Niagara Falls trip to China 1929 with "Paris - Moscow"-Express over Siberia - Lake Baikal - border station Manchuria (Irkutsk; Dairen - capital of Manchuko; Loyang; Shanghai, Beijing; Sunyatsen Mausoleum near Nanking) Return journey from China to Berlin (Tsingtau - former protectorate Kiautschou; Mukten; Lake Baikal; Berlin) America trip August - November 1930 (London; menu of the "Leviathan" - United State Lines with autographs of the dinner guests (13.08.1930), enclosed Weather observations in the North Atlantic from November 1930 on the route New York - Cherburg; Chicago; Niagara Falls Persons: - Frau Walther (Pension Walther Shanghai); Fritz Horn - H. Hasenoerl from Siemens

Remark: Photos labeled and numbered from 988 to 1168

Photographer: Dr. Mergner. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,2 X 5,9. Description: European buildings (stone, corrugated iron), in front (canopy) and on meadow people. Remark: Negative property Mergner. Reference: flat film neg. and cardboard no. 119 in negative box. See album 14, no. 128 (8.8 X 6.4).

notebooks, 1 box with 20 notebooks, 1902-1935, handwritten location lists, fieldbooks, determination lists [from the estate of Werdermann]* 2 albums with original photos (by Pritzel) from his Capland-Australia-New Zealand-New Guinea-Java trip with Pritzel 1900-1902 with captions probably by Pritzel [(1) c. 30 photographs from Australia published in "Die Pflanzengeographie in 200 Lichtbildern" (Leipzig: Seemann, 1914; 30 p. 200 photographs), catalogue attached 2nd edition by S Pritzel; (2) ; s.a. Diels

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,0 X 8,0. Description: European building, people in the background. Reference: See album 19, no. 351 (10,7 X 8,2) "...Aruscha...".

Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,2 X 8,6. Description: Patient under canopy with sister Jenny, in front sick person wrapped on stretcher with blankets, beside African woman and Schw. Wärthl, similar to album 4, no. 1095. Remark: Stamp of the Missionsverlag.

Photographer: Dr. Mergner. Phototype: Photo. Format: 7,9 X 5,2 Description: Building complex (European style), stone walls, corrugated iron roof, some people in between. Remark: Negative property Mergner. Reference: Cf. album 14, no. 160 (8,7 X 6,7).

Photographer: Dr. Mergner. Phototype: Photo. Format: 5,4 X 8,0. Remark: see 1386 Album 1 (or plate no.24) motive almost identical. Reference: Cf. album 14, no. 162 (9,8 X 6,9); estate Dr. Mergner no. 300 (5,9 X 8,8).

Photographer: Schanz?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,1 X 7,0. Description: See album 11, no. 257.

Photographer: Guth?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 11,6 X 8,8. Description: refers to 915, children's group, close-up, left 1 boy with pointed filed teeth. Reference: the same photo in: Album 4, number 915 (11.8 X 8.1).

Photographer: Nüßler?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 8,9 X 8,0. Description: Head of a man, ulcer over forehead, profile. Reference: See album 15, no. 1 (12.2 X 9.0). Cf. postcard box P 24a (14,2 X 9,1), P 24b (14,2 X 9,1) "The Kilimanjaro in East Africa (Kibo summit, 6010m)".

Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,7 X 7,8.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,8 X 8,3 Description: below Arnold Blumer with his African friend. Reference: See Album 20 , No. 536.

Phototype: Photo. Format: 10,8 X 8,2. Remark: dark. Reference: See album 19, no. 295.

Photographer: Blumer?. Phototype: Photo. Format: 14,9 X 10,0. Description: 2 rectangular buildings with corrugated iron roof, 9 round houses with pointed roofs of plant fibres, on the left some persons, in front 1 African person. Remark: with black border. Reference: See album 18, no. 112 (13.8 X 8.9). Cf. estate L. Frabjous, no 757 (13.8 X 8.9).