The picture archive of the two Lemgo master photographers Fritz Ernst Ohle (1881 - 1962) and Karl Ernst Ohle (1917 - 1982) was transferred to the city archive as a deposit (reservation of title) of the association Alt Lemgo e. V. in 2013. The picture archive was sold in 1989 to the Lemgo entrepreneur Gerhard Mische, who donated the photo collection to the Alt Lemgo association in 2002. The stock consists of glass plate negatives, b/w photo prints on cardboard, photo albums (b/w), negatives (b/w and color), slides (b/w and color) as well as loose or framed photo prints (b/w and color). In the archive database, the glass plate negatives and some of the photo prints on cardboard have been indexed so far. When the picture archive was handed over, digital photos of the glass plate negatives and some of the photo prints were also delivered on cardboard, which are stored as thumbnails in the archive database and can be viewed in the reading room of the city archive via the archive database. For the remaining photo material there are partly handwritten lists, which were made by Mr. Hartmut Walter of the association Alt Lemgo. The rest is not further developed and has only partial inscriptions. The old finding aids for the glass plate negatives and the photo prints on cardboard are available for inspection in the reading room of the City Archive. Your details have been included in the archive database. In addition, B/W printouts of the digital copies can be viewed in the reading room according to the sequence of signatures. The order signatures of the stock consist of an abbreviation and a sequential number. The abbreviations shall be broken down as follows: FAK = Photo prints on cardboard GPK = Glass plates GPG = Glass plates Contents mainly photographs of houses, streets, people and events in Lemgo from the end of the 19th century to the 1960s. In the case of publications of photos from the stock, the following shall be cited: StaL N 9 Depositum Ohle (Association Alt Lemgo/Mischen) signature. Some of the glass plate negatives from the picture collection have been owned by the Westfälisches Amt für Denkmalpflege since 1979. Prints of these negatives can be found in the photo collection N 1 of the city archive.
