Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo is the photo agency of the German quality newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Contemporary history and historical figures are the main focus. Since the year 1956, Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo (then still under the name of "SV-Bilderdienst") operates nationally and internationally as a picture agency for press photography and photographic reports. On Photocircle, we present a part of our historical archive containing about 550,000 historical photographs. The ones presented here mainly originate from the image archive of the Berlin-based Scherl Verlag.