Media Archive Documents
The 1835 "Conceßion" giving the "owner of a lithographic facility, bookbinder Carl Bertelsmann...the requested permission to construct a book-printing operation in connection with the above facility...."
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Carl Bertelsmann's signature, 1839
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"Theomele" - the first book published by Carl Bertelsmann
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The first edition of the "Bertelsmann-Illustrierte" from 1934
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1849 - Announcements for the greater Gütersloh region
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C. Bertelsmann's first publishing directory, for the years 1835-1873
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An excerpt from the Börsenblatt financial paper's article on the publisher's 75th anniversary celebration
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The cover of the magazine "Die evangelischen Missionen" (The Protestant Missions), Vol. 10, January 1904, published by the Rev. Julius Richter
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"Eight pages of giving joy. Quarterly story installments for the maintenance of heart and mind." The successful periodical was published by the Rev. John Zauleck.
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A later edition of "Für alte Augen" (For Elderly Eyes) magazine, January 1940
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Cover of "Der Christliche Erzähler" (The Christian Narrator), Volume 1. The literary magazine is published every 2 weeks starting in 1927.
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On March 27, 1946 Heinrich Mohn was granted the license for the book-publishing operation
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Print order for 200,000 schoolbooks in August 1945
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Print order for school books
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Whether in the mountains, by the sea or ...
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First issue of "Bertelsmann-Illustrierte" magazine after the war
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Preliminary ideas and designs for the Lesering bus, probably from 1950
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C. Bertelsmann Verlag mailing to announce the establishment of the Lesering, datedMay 31, 1950
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The quarterly "Lesering-Illustrierte" provides an overview of the book selection available through the Lesering. It is mailed "free of charge" to subscribers and by 1959 already has a circulation of over 2.8 million copies.
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Advertising brochure about the diverse product range of the Kartographisches Institut Bertelsmann
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In color and razor-sharp: 16 pages of the moon landing - Edition of Stern with the participation of Bertelsmann, 1969
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Communicated in-house in November 1972: Bertelsmann increases its shareholding in Gruner+Jahr
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Information for our business partners on the restructuring of the publishing company. The Bertelsmann Verlagsgruppe publishing group is born.
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The staff newsletter "Bertelsmann report" covers the company's conversion into a stock corporation in 1971
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Press release on the foundation of BMG in 1987
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Presentation of Bertelsmann's Berlin premises, 2008
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First document showing company welfare provisions - Statute of the Disability and Retirement Benefits Scheme, 1887
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Shutdown order received from the Reichsschriftenkammer in August 1944
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Shutdown order for the C. Bertelsmann publishing company issued by the President of the Reichschriftumskammer, dated August 26, 1944 (reproduction of the copy kept in the publisher's archives)
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