Slide Collection

This smallest unit is made up of original black-and-white and colour slides. Most of the black-and-white slides are stereo photographs made during the first decades of the 20th century. Colour slides gained importance some twenty years ago when newapapers, magazines, books started to show an increasing demand for old photographs in colour..

The majority of the colour slides are framed narrow films, originally designed for projection. They were used from the mid- 1930s onwards. Earlier, from the late 1900s, colour photography was pursued with autochromes, grainy photographs on 9x12 cm glass plates still preserving their colours.

The collection has color slides of Governor Miklós Horthy and his family, the procession on Saint Stephen's day (20th August), the bombardment of Budapest, and of the events of the revolution and freedom fights of 1956. From the 1970's on, color slides are no longer exceptional. They can be found in large numbers among the photographs of Irén Ács and in the archive of the Képzőművészeti Kiadó (Fine Arts Publishing House).

There are 1200 catalogued slides in this unit.