Historic Luxembourg Photos

The following excerpt is from the August 1, 2016 edition of the wort.lu website.

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While Luxembourg works on its new nation brand, Wort.lu looks back at past branding approaches, in a rare online photo collection.

The 6,500-strong photo archive dating from the 1950s to the ’70s is freely accessible on the website of Luxembourg’s National Archives, where one would normally find administrative manuscripts pertaining to the State.

“The Ministry of Economy contacted 20 to 30 photographers, from professionals to amateurs. They went throughout Luxembourg and photographed everything they saw,” said Philippe Nilles of the national archive office, adding: “It was done clearly to make publicity for Luxembourg.”

The collection is not the largest photo archive in Luxembourg – this can be found at the CNA in Dudelange or the Photothèque de la Ville de Luxembourg.

Read the full article.

Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the heads-up.

Note that Family Roots Publishing just published a guide to research in Luxembourg. Click here to read a blog about it.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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