Stories, News, Articles and Galleries reflecting our collection
For more than 125 years, the Touring Club Italiano historical archive has reflected the perspective of Italians learning about their country and its vibrant culture through tourism. Touring Club Italiano (TCI) was founded in Milan in 1894 to promote tourism across Italy. The archive developed over time from photographs provided by the Club’s members. Now, […]
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Sit back and enjoy the heyday of cinema and going to watch a film. This week on April 2nd over 120 years ago in 1902, Tally’s Electric Theater opened – it was the first permanent movie theater in Los Angeles, with the Hollywood district of the city soon to become central to film-making and cinema around […]
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LOOKING BACK AT SOME OF THE GREAT IMAGES WE RECEIVED IN 2025 Over the course of a year we receive, select and process many thousands of images across a wide variety of subjects. We are privileged to work with such a fantastic range of photographers, agencies and archives. Check out our slideshows below featuring just […]
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UIG is privileged to represent Glasshouse Images for both their contemporary and historical archives. Glasshouse Images, founded in New York by commercial photographer Spencer Jones, is a stock photo agency catering to a select group of creatives who are always on the look out for exceptional and distinctive imagery. Glasshouse Images’ historical archives include its Circa Images […]
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Ivy Close Images is a unique photo house that offers a diverse range of historical images with a focus on quality. Based in Southport, Maine, Ivy Close Images is a family-owned company that provides special attention to caption accuracy and image clarity. The collection offers 80,000 images available for licensing. Areas of specialization include colorized […]
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Universal Images Group will be in Juan les Pins, Antibes on the French Riviera to attend the CEPIC congress. CEPIC is the stock photo annual event for great informative industry seminars and the opportunity to connect and network with other companies in our sector. We go there to represent the image partners we have, find […]
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Jump in to our time machine as we take you back 100 years to the United Sates in 1924. What was going on in the daily lives of people, what events were happening? Are there things we do now that were surprisingly similar all that time ago? When you do see something in these images […]
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By Francesca Lungarotti Paris 2024, the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, will take place from July 26 to August 11. The City of Light will be on display to the world during the Games and the months leading up to them. Paris is no stranger to international attention and hosted more than 15 million visitors during 2023. […]
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We hope to make you feel festive and get in the spirit of the holidays. So here are a selection of images, for those of us who celebrate Christmas, showing that all through the years we have all come together as friends and family to celebrate a special time of the year. Season’s Greetings from […]
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‘If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.’ Hippocrates. “Throughout history, the poor generally got all of the exercise they needed, and more, through hard physical graft, while the wealthier classes had their hunting, […]
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