ANSA

Over 1.6 million images in black and white and colour (negatives, plates, slides, prints) which bear witness to events (some 200,000 in Italy and abroad) and personalities from the '40s to 1995 (the year in which the passage to digital technology was completed). The coverage of the events extends to all information sectors: news, politics, sport, show business, culture, with images which range from institutional events to customs and habits and everyday life.
ANSA's historical archive represents a heritage unique in its kind and constitutes an essential instrument to rebuild the historical memory of Italy and of the major world events. The archive was deemed of great historical interest by the Cultural Heritage Ministry and is currently being progressively digitalised.

BELGA



Belga offers a rich archive of more than 3 500 000 digitalized pictures accessible with in a few clicks on the website. The “paper” archives of more than 3000 000 photos, dating back from 1946, represent a total weight of 23 tons.

LUSA



The Agency’s photographic department dates back to the 1970s, when the foundations of its Photographic Archive were laid.
Besides pictures made by its own photographers, the photographic archive has been enriched with photos from international press agencies, due to the agreement with Epa. Today, we possess a vast and exceedingly rich historical collection of photographs of both Portugal and the wider world.
LUSA non-digital photographic archive is made up of around one million and seventy thousand photograms and 60 000 slides, making a total of approximately 1 130 000 images. The earliest date backs to 1976, when ANOP began to provide an international service through an agreement with UPI – United Press International – for the reception of telephotos. Photographic production started at ANOP in1977.
Both the slides and the negatives are in a good general state of preservation. However, some of the negatives are a little damaged, due to lack of cleaning and a degree of dampness.
Since 2000, LUSA has begun using colour digital images, and as such from that moment onwards the archive has a completely different format. The images are digital and are archived on CDs. Up until then, before the use of digital images, most of the archives was made up of negatives / photograms. The earlier images are black and white, followed by colour images.
With SPHAENA project LUSA has managed to digitalise about 10.000 photograms.

MTI



The MTI photo archives is one of the largest state-maintained photo repositories in Central Europe, with a collection of over 12 million negatives. Thematically, the photos preserved at the archives cover the major events and personalities that have shaped the news over the past seven decades both in Hungary and throughout the rest of the world.
Subscribers have access to a digitalized collection of more than 600,000 archival and current photos, which they can select directly and order over the Internet.   
The retroactive organization, classification, editing and digitalization of the MTI’s vast collection of  photographic negatives has been going on since 2002. As a result of this effort, many original negatives of which no positive image had ever been prepared were uncovered and became available for use and analysis. Photographs that surfaced in this way have been published in our Kor-képek [Age Pictures] series of photo albums.
The Hungarian News Agency maintains permanent (computer) contact with the world press-photo network and photo agencies. MTI continuously receives the most recent news photos depicting world events from its partners abroad. These photographs, whose captions are translated into Hungarian, are also deposited in the MTI photo archives, thus broadening the range of the collection.
The primary mission of the MTI photo archives is to satisfy the mass-communication needs of media both at home and abroad. The MTI archives is open to the public, with copies and enlargements of the photos contained in its collection available to anybody, including private individuals, upon request.





PAP



PAP Foto’s archive of around 18 million photographs contains many unique and valuable pictures portraying the country’s reconstruction and daily life in the first years after Word War Two, the installation of communism, and measures employed against communism opponents.
Shown on these photographs is human life among war ruins, the construction of new buildings, the plight of children, ways of spending leisure time, religious festivities, sporting events, communist mass rallies, and political events.
PAP Foto also has a rich photographic archive devoted to historical relics, architecture, nature, sacral and folk art, and the crafts, including interesting pictures of Polish objects included on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The pictures are stored in traditional negative and diapositive form, enabling high-quality scanning (e.g. for publishing purposes).
Large sections of the archive are electronically stored, work on its digitalization is underway.