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Hermann Marggraff 1809–1864 (Book history)
Archival materials and letters from various publishers and book dealers addressed to Hermann Marggraff.
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Märkische Buchhandelsgesellschaft (book trading company in Frankfurt/Oder) (History of the book trade)
Documents relating to apprenticeships, vocational training and management training in the book trade; materials on the book trade in the Frankfurt/Oder region in GDR times including business reports from the “Zentrale Leitung des Volksbuchhandels” (central book trade organisation in the GDR), inventory records, book dealer codes, correspondence with various book dealers, plans of action, announcements by the central organisation, correspondence relating to planning proposals, minutes of work conferences, collective agreements for the book trade in Frankfurt/Oder, documents relating to building plans for individual book dealerships in the district, professional competitions, “Tage des freien Buches” (Day of the Free Book).
Scope: 12 archival boxes. Period: 1963–1990
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Maximilian-Gesellschaft (Maximilian Society) (Archive / Bibliophilia)
Business correspondence dating from the time of the society’s foundation in 1946, circulars, minutes of committee meetings, members’ directories and book archive; fractional estate of G. A. E. Bogeng.
Scope of business archive: 60 archival boxes. Period: 1911 to the present day
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Dr. Meiner 1895–1985 (Partial estate / Book history)
Documents, manuscripts, typescripts of lectures and publications on book studies and the history of the book trade; materials relating to Dr. Meiner’s teaching and voluntary work with the Börsenverein and the Bayerischer Landesverband; correspondence with persons such as Heinrich F. S. Bachmair, Adalbert Brauer, Hans Brockhaus, Siegfried Buchenau, Curt and Marianne Fleischhack, Martin Giesecke, Paul Heitz, Georg Kurt Schauer.
Scope: 8 archival boxes. Period: 1925–1985
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Prof. Dr. Menz 1885–1954 (Partial estate / Book history)
Own publications; correspondence, notes, collections of materials on subjects such as the foreign book trade, book costing, book advertising, warehouse management, statistics, history of the book trade, the wholesale book trade; documents relating to audits of publishers Verlag Th. Knaur Nachf., Berlin, carried out in 1938 and 1941.
Scope: 3 archival boxes. Period: 1920–1944
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MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels (Media archive)
“Börsenblatt” photo archive. Around 50,000 photographs of persons: authors, publishers, book dealers, other important persons in the business, prominent political and cultural figures; approximately 20,000 photographs of Börsenverein events: book fairs, book (dealer) days, Nobel Prize award ceremonies, meetings with politicians at events held by the office in Bonn and later in Berlin, general meetings, commission and committee meetings; around 600 archival folders containing interior and exterior views of bookshops and publishing companies.
Scope: approx. 70,000 photographs and 600 archival folders. Period: circa 1972–2005
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