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Article: Johann Sebastian Bach as His World Knew Him.
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- December 1, 1996
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In 1935, Otto Bettmann fled Nazi Germany with few possessions other than a trunk filled with photographic negatives that he had collected while working as a librarian at the Prussian State Art Library. Those negatives were to become the foundation for the Bettmann Archive, a collection of over three million pictures, photographs, drawings, and other artwork accumulated by "the Picture Man" throughout his long career. By the time the archive was sold in 1980, it had served as a resource for publishers, filmmakers, and advertising firms alike; it had also inspired Bettmann to compile histories of music, medicine, sports, and Victorian-era America.
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