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Photographs as Sources for the History of Everyday Life: The Photographic Collections of the Hessenpark Open-Air Museum, the State of Hesse’s Museum of Everyday Life

Ulrike Sbresny

From the Journal: Rundbrief Fotografie

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04 Dec 2024

Abstract

Abstract

The Hessenpark Open-Air Museum in Neu-Anspach is one of the largest open-air museums in Germany and the main museum of everyday life in the state of Hesse. Photographs such as those of the amateurs Walter Löber (1906–1968) and Wilhelm Nikolaus Dinges (1898–1947) greatly enhance our understanding of the museum’s collection of more than 200,000 objects as sources of information about everyday life. That collection has been enlarged by the estates of Heinrich (a.k.a. Henry, 1865–1931) and Gustav Magel (1899– 1962) and of Ernst Felsing (1908–1985), whose works a group of volunteers is now digitising as part of the project “TraVogelsberg. Eine Region bricht auf”. It falls under the aegis of a programme initiated by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes called “Trafo. Models for Culture in Transformation”. Given the value of such photographs as historical sources for the study of everyday life, the ultimate goal – for the museum alone at first – is to build up a photo archive of everyday life in Hesse.

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