{"id":5798,"date":"2016-06-28T11:06:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ra.ee\/film-photo-audio\/foto\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:29:41","slug":"foto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ra.ee\/en\/film-photo-audio\/foto\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u00a0photo collections of the National Archives can be searched through the<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Fotis<\/a>\u00a0information system.\u00a0\u00a0Please use our <\/b><\/span>self-service environment<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span> for ordering files.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The photo collection of the National Archives \u2013 Estonia\u2019s largest collection of historical photographs \u2013 took shape as a result of the 1935 Archives Act and the Soviet-era archival system. The oldest photographs date from the late 19th\u00a0century archives of persons and societies, including the portraits and albums of Baltic German families (zur M\u00fchlen<\/a>, Krusenstern<\/a>, Ungern-Sternberg<\/a>), student fraternities (Estonia<\/a>, Livonia<\/a>, Estonian Students\u2019 Society<\/a>) and the agriculture and genealogy societies (Estonian Agricultural Society of Tartu<\/a>, Matriculation Commission of the Estonian Welfare Association<\/a>, German Genealogical Society of Tartu<\/a>). \u00a0The National Archives\u2019 oldest photograph \u2013 a\u00a0daguerreotype<\/a>\u00a0from the late 1840s \u2013 and 12 ferrotypes are noteworthy rarities.<\/p>\n

The archives contain collections based on photographers, collectors, individuals, companies, organisations, schools and institutions of state. The latter include police photos of criminals and fugitives, and photographs of weapons and driving licences. The largest part of the photo collections of the Film Archives consist of the collections of Estonian\u00a0newspaper<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>offices. Since the 1990s, the newspapers preserve their collections inhouse, but in the Soviet times, the archives made periodic acquisitions from nearly all newspapers, particular collections of note were those of the\u00a0ETA wire service<\/a>\u00a0(64,000 photographs),\u00a0Rahva H\u00e4\u00e4l<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>newspaper and\u00a0Spordileht<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The archives also contain matter of interest to\u00a0military<\/strong>\u00a0buffs:\u00a0personal archives of military figures<\/a>, albums documenting World War I, the Defence League districts, the members of Estonian cabinets of ministers.<\/p>\n

Photos from\u00a0\u00e9migr\u00e9 Estonian<\/strong>\u00a0organisations and personal archives describe how Estonians in the various countries lived: participation in the ESTO festivals, celebration of various anniversaries. The oldest photos depicting Estonians\u2019 daily lives are from America, and the Far East and Russia.<\/p>\n

Film-related photo collections include albums of screen tests for feature films and photos\u00a0from the set\u00a0<\/a>for Tallinnfilm studio. Numerous photos of theatres in the Estonian SSR are also preserved here.<\/p>\n

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The \u00a0photo collections of the National Archives can be searched through the\u00a0Fotis\u00a0information system.\u00a0\u00a0Please use our self-service environment for ordering files. The photo collection of the National Archives \u2013 Estonia\u2019s largest collection of historical photographs \u2013 took shape as a result of the 1935 Archives Act and the Soviet-era archival system. The oldest photographs date from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":1900,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5798","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ra.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ra.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ra.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ra.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ra.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ra.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5798\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ra.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ra.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}