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The picture archive of the Evangelisch-Lutherischer Missionswerk Leipzig e.V. contains materials from the Leipzig Mission (from 1840 - photos from 1860 - to 1989), from its former branch offices as well as from the current LMW, the publishing house of the Evangelisch-Lutherischer Mission zu Leipzig (until 1945) and from estates (from approx. 1830 until now):
-- more than 10,000 historical photos and postcards (partly from 1840 - photos from 1860 - to 1989):
-- more than 10,000 historical photos and postcards (partly from 1860 - to 1989). also their glass negatives and plan films); in albums according to regions, missionaries or as working material (e.g. portrait album (digitalized) and cliché album by Senior Handmann)), photos as single bundles without proofs, albums as gifts from bequests of strangers, missionaries or mission employees - mainly without indication of the picture authors, the places and the date of recording - sample sheets (with approx. 340 prints) and printing blocks (not yet recorded) from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century
-- historical maps, graphics, prints, hand drawings and watercolours (not yet recorded), 20 Micas (digitally recorded)
-- historical glass slides after old photos, partly coloured - early 20th century The archive contains approx. 60,000 slides (mostly after 1945, not yet updated, i.e. duplicates not sorted out) and not digitized
-- approx. 175 old tapes and approx. 20 film rolls (mostly after 1945). Approximately 3,400 historical photos from the East African mission area (approx. 1895 until 1940). This work has been and will be continued under the direction of Professor Dr. Adam Jones from the Institute of African Studies at the University of Leipzig within the framework of projects published as ULPA volumes (No. 6, 7, 16, 19 and 27) and is part of the database IMPA (Internet Mission Photography Archive), accessible at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa/