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Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection (page 14)

FPG International, originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild, was started in 1936 by Arthur Brackman, a New York newspaper editor. FPG specialised in producing photo-essay material for magazines, helping photographers get work with the era's new picture magazines, like "Life". FPG eventually became a general stock-photo company.

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Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Kroll Garden

Kroll Garden
Coffee and a concert in the gardens of the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, on a sunday afternoon, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Nauener Tor

Nauener Tor
The Nauener Tor or Nauen Gate in Potsdam, Germany, circa 1900. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Wet Schlossplatz

Wet Schlossplatz
A streetsweeper in the Schlossplatz in Berlin, after the rain, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Berlin Bus

Berlin Bus
A new double-decker bus tour in Berlin, Germany, circa 1930. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Weimar Historical Cemetery

Weimar Historical Cemetery
The Russian Orthodox Chapel in the Historical Cemetery at Weimar, Germany, with the FAOErstengruft on the left, circa 1930

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Reichenstein Castle

Reichenstein Castle
The Falkenburg of Reichenstein Castle, near Trechtingshausen on the River Rhine in Germany, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: German Farming

German Farming
Female farm labourers in Germany, near the end of World War II, June 1945. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Cologne Cathedral

Cologne Cathedral
The interior of Cologne Cathedral, Germany, circa 1930. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Berlin-Stettin Road

Berlin-Stettin Road
State-owned omnibuses on the new road from Berlin to Stettin (later Szczecin in Poland), Germany, circa 1936. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Unter Den Linden

Unter Den Linden
Traffic on Unter Den Linden in Berlin, where it crosses the Freidrichstrasse, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: FPG (Originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild)

FPG (Originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild)
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Gallery: Vintage Collections: FPG (Originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: FPG (Originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild)

FPG (Originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild)
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Gallery: Vintage Collections: FPG (Originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Fruhlarhrsmesse

Fruhlarhrsmesse
Advertising placards at a Fruhlarhrsmesse or Spring Fair in Leipzig, Germany, 1914. Photo by the GebrAOEder Haeckel. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Lehrter Bahnhof

Lehrter Bahnhof
The Lehrter Bahnhof, later Berlin Central Station, on the River Spree in Berlin, circa 1910. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Elevated Railway

Elevated Railway
An elevated railway in Germany, circa 1935. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Anhalter Bahnhof

Anhalter Bahnhof
1930: The Anhalter Bahnhof railway terminus in Berlin, 50 years after its opening. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Munich Station

Munich Station
Munich railway station at night, circa 1935. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Bietschtal Viaduct

Bietschtal Viaduct
The Bietschtal Viaduct carries the LAotschberg railway line across the Bietsch Valley in Switzerland, circa 1920. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: German Strikes

German Strikes
German infantry escort a coal cart through Dortmund in Germany, during an industrial strike, circa 1905. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Safety Net

Safety Net
Children at an elementary school in Germany test out a life net or jumping sheet during a demonstration by the emergency services, circa 1930. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: FPG (Originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild)

FPG (Originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild)
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Gallery: Vintage Collections: FPG (Originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Lenbachhaus

Lenbachhaus
The garden of the Lenbachhaus or Lenbach House, an art museum in Munich, Germany, circa 1930. It was built in the Florentine style in the late 1880s by Gabriel von Seidl. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: German Countryside

German Countryside
A scene in the Germany countryside, circa 1950. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Mittenwald

Mittenwald
Barns in Mittenwald, under the Karwendel mountains in the Alps, circa 1950. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Gallusanlage

Gallusanlage
A Handelshaus or business house on the corner of Gallusanlage and Kaiserstrasse in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Gruneweld Race Course

Gruneweld Race Course
Smartly dressed crowds at the inaugral meeting of Gruneweld race course, near Berlin, 23rd May 1909. (Photo by Haeckel/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Grunewald Races

Grunewald Races
Crowds behind the Grand Stand at the Grunewald Race Course, Berlin, circa 1910. Kaiser Wilhelm II is in attendance, along with the Empress, and the Crown Prince and Princess

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Yildiz Palace Dining Room

Yildiz Palace Dining Room
The dining room at the Yildiz Palace, Istanbul, circa 1890. The palace, was built in 1880 and used by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Bedroom In Stadtschloss

Bedroom In Stadtschloss
A bedroom in the Stadtschloss (royal Palace), Berlin, circa 1913. The room was used King George V and Queen Mary in that year when they visited Berlin for the wedding of Princess Victoria Louise of

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Berlin Palace

Berlin Palace
A sitting room in the Stadtschloss (royal Palace), Berlin, circa 1913. The room was used in that year by King George V and Queen Mary when they visited Berlin for the wedding of Princess Victoria

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Walking Out

Walking Out
A couple strolling in a park, circa 1905. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Mechanicville Controller

Mechanicville Controller
A railroad despatcher looking over the railway yards at Mechanicville on the The Boston & Maine Railroad, New York State, January 1928. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Columns At Penn Station

Columns At Penn Station
View of columns and coffered ceiling of Pennsylvania Station, New York, New York, 1930s. The building was demolished in 1963 to make way for the construction of Madison Square Garde

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Interior of Riverside Church

Interior of Riverside Church
One of the first pictures of the unusual arches and columns of the interior of Riverside Church, New York, New York, 1930. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: East Wing Of The Metropolitan Club

East Wing Of The Metropolitan Club
Exterior view of the East Wing of the Metropolitan Club, designed by McKim, Mead, & White in 1912, at the corner of 60th Street and 5th Avenue, New York, New York, 1910s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: U. S. Custom House In New York

U. S. Custom House In New York
View of the U.S. Custom House Building on Bowling Green, New York, New York, 1920s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Buildings On Newspaper Row In New York

Buildings On Newspaper Row In New York
View of the New York Tribune Building (center, with clock), the World Building (left, with dome), and The New York Times Building (right) on Nassau Street, New York, New York, 1920s

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: New York Telephone Exchange

New York Telephone Exchange
Exterior of the first headquarters of the New York Telephone Exchange at 18 Cortlandt Street, New York, New York, late 1890s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Whitehall Building Complex In New York

Whitehall Building Complex In New York
View of the Whitehall Building and the Whitehall Building Annex at 17 Battery Place, New York, New York, 1920s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: U. S. Custom House

U. S. Custom House
View of the U.S. Custom House Building on Bowling Green, New York, New York, late 1900s or early 1910s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Airship Over The Speedway

Airship Over The Speedway
A blimp flies over Sheepshead Bay Speedway as spectators watch and talk amongst themselves, Brooklyn, New York, late 1910s

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Men Load Vehicle Onto Hand Cars

Men Load Vehicle Onto Hand Cars
Two Asian men pose for the camera while others, overseen by men who appear to be railroad officials, load a wheeled vehicle onto hand cars, early 1900s

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Railroad Tunnel Entrance

Railroad Tunnel Entrance
Photograph is half of a stereograph image that shows an Asian man as he carries a pair of buckets from a tunnel that will form part of the Donner Lake Railroad, California, late 1800s

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Rooftop Tea Lounge

Rooftop Tea Lounge
Several people read while they sit at shaded tables in a rooftop tea lounge which overlooks Oxford Street during a heat wave, London, 1920s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Crowds Rush To Meet Lindbergh In Croydon

Crowds Rush To Meet Lindbergh In Croydon
A huge crowd of people run to greet Charles A. Lindberghs plane as it lands at Croydon airfield, Croydon, England, May 29, 1927. Linbergh had recently completed his fist solo trans-Atlantic flight

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: In The Aftermath

In The Aftermath
In the foreground a group of men from all walks of life stand on a completed section of a protective levee that they have built while in the background others continue to work on their part, East St

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Roman Pools & Casino Windmill

Roman Pools & Casino Windmill
People relax and sunbathe on the beach in front of the Dutch windmill of the Roman Pools and Casino, located at the South end of Miami Beach, Florida. 1920s or 1930s

Background imageFreelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Legionnaires On Parade

Legionnaires On Parade
Members of the French Foreign Legion stationed in Africa stand at attention on the parade ground, early 1900s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)



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