Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Bettmann Archive is a collection of over 18 million photographs and images, [1] some going back to the United States Civil War and including some of the best known U.S. historic images. The Archive also includes many images from Europe and elsewhere. It was founded in 1936 by Otto Bettmann (1903–1998), [2] a German curator who immigrated ...
Otto Ludwig Bettmann (October 15, 1903, Leipzig, Germany – May 3, 1998), known as "The Picture Man," was the founder of the Bettmann Archive. Bettmann is considered to have "virtually invented the image resource business."
Bettmann - Getty Images. 1964. The sisters wore glamorous evening gowns to an event at Christianborg Castle. From left to right, Margrethe, 24, Benedikte, 20, and Anne-Maire, 18.
The photographic negative is in the Bettmann Archive, owned by the Visual China Group. The image is often misattributed to Lewis Hine , but the identity of the actual photographer remains unclear. Evidence emerged indicating it may have been taken by Charles C. Ebbets , but it was later found that other photographers had been present at the ...
Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Eleanor Roosevelt wore a pink lace gown to her husband's historic fourth inauguration. In 1951, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, placing limits on the number of terms ...
Bettmann Archive/Getty The Trapp Family Singers, lead by Dr. Franz Wasner, rehearse for Easter services in Merion, PA. The 1965 film shows the von Trapps fleeing the Nazi regime in Austria by ...
Founded in 1936 by Otto Bettmann, a German curator who emigrated to the United States in 1935, [17] the Bettman Archive began with Bettmann's personal collection of 15,000 images which he brought with him in suitcases when he escaped from Nazi Germany. [18] He actively expanded his collection by placing ads in magazines for stills and photos. [17]
This 1948 photograph shows women and children being displaced from a Palestinian village near Haifa. - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. The determination to not have that dispossession repeated, no ...