Initial Cataloguing of the Perthes Publishing House Archive (1785–1945/53)

In its efforts to catalogue the Perthes Publishing House Archive, the Gotha Research Library is currently focusing on the historical archive of the Justus Perthes Publishing House up until 1945/1953. The objectives of the project are to reconstruct the tectonics of the historical archive of Justus Perthes from 1785–1953, to reorganize the sections “Editorial Management of Petermann’s Georgraphical Journal (PGM)” and “Employees and Friends of the Publisher”, to provide access to and make use of the 'Company and Family Archive' and “Picture Archive”, to revise and expand existing search aids, to develop search aids for individual estates, and to catalogue the collections in the national Kalliope database.