The University Library has large collections of photographic material from the 19th century up to the present. They are mainly photographs of topography and portraits.
The photographic collections are housed at the Section for maps and pictures at Carolina Rediviva. They include extensive photographic documentation of the city of Uppsala and its surroundings from the 1860s up to around 1950. Many well-known Uppsala photographers from the latter part of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century are represented, e.g. Henri Osti and Alfred Dahlgren. The collections also contain photographs from other places in Sweden and abroad.
A very large number of our photographs form part of the Library's extensive portrait collection. Most of the photographic portraits are from 1860-1940, but we have both older and more recent pictures too. The photographic portraits can be located, in a catalogue at the Section for maps and pictures, by the name of the person on the photograph. Unfortunately it is not possible to search for a photographer by name.
Read more about the Library's collection of negatives.
