In the thirties, one of the first workers' cooperatives of photographers was created: the "Photographes Associés" (Associated Photographers). In 1938 it was taken over by Robert Delhay and its name was changed, becoming the LAPI Agency ("Les Actualités Photographiques Internationales"). The Agency continued operations during the Occupation and covered scenes of Paris and French daily life from 1939 to 1945. After the war, Robert Delhay became one of the official photographers of the Arch of Triumph until the 1970s. Roger-Viollet acquired this impressive collection--more than 630,000 negatives and 27,000 prints--in 1976.
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World War II. The exodus of May-June 1940 in France.
LAPI / Roger-Viollet
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War 1939-1945. Gym in a Youth centre. Paris, December, 1943. LAP-19799
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Déménagement : arrivée de l'agence LAPI, rue de Seine. En arrière-plan, vitrine de l'agence Roger-Viollet. Paris (VIème arr.), avril 1976.
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World War II. Casein biscuit distribution in a Youth Centre. Paris, December 1941.
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War 1939-1945. Lamirand, secretary-general at Youth inaugurating the exhibition "the most beautiful job". Paris, April 1941 (under the Marshal Pétain's portrait).
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War 1939-1945. Oath of the athlete filmed by news. Vincennes's stage(stadium), in May, 1944. LAP-25388
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World War II. Militia Oath ceremony. Paris, Cour des Invalides, July 1st, 1944.
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World War II. Planting leeks in the Louvre gardens for the Secours National (Vichy France official charity). Paris, September 1943.
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World War II. French actor Raimu (1883-1946), serving hot broth to poor people. Paris, the Halles, April 1944.
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Children in the Belleville district. Paris, XXth arrondissement.
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Grape harvest in Montmartre, rue des Saules. Paris, October 1941.
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World War II. Traffic in Paris. A Penny-farthing and a gas bus, March 1941.
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Roller skaters Grand Prix. The place de l'Opéra. Paris, September 1941.
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Preparations for the 1937 World Fair in Paris.
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World War II. "Le Dauphin" electric car. Paris, September 1941.
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World War II. Traffic in Paris, 1940.
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Waiters race. Paris, place de l'Opera, July 1941.
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World war II. Exhibition of photographs of the French Waffen SS. Paris, Champs-Elysées, January 1944.
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World War II. Jacques Doriot (1898-1945) at a demonstration of the Legion of the French Volunteers at the Winter Velodrome. Paris, April 1944.
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World War II. Parisian man carrying a goose bought for Christmas, 1943.
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World War II. Members of the Legion of French Volunteers (French LVF). Versailles (France), October 1943.
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World War II. Park for children and forbidden to Jewish people. Paris, November 1942.
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World war II. Exhibition "The Jew and France" in the palais Berlitz. Paris, August 1941.
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World War II. Tandem used to make electricity. Paris, August 1st, 1944.
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World war II. Inventory of the gallery Wildenstein, Boétie street, 57. Paris, April, 1941.
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World War II. The Halles. Parisians looking for some food. Paris (Ist arrondissement), 1940.
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World War II. Recruiting office for the French unit of the Waffen SS. Paris, August 1943.
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World War II. German soldiers buying postcards. Versailles, on August 19, 1940.
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Showers in a school. Paris, March, 1943.
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World War II. Departure of a contigent of volunteers for the French unity of the Waffen SS. Paris, gare de l'Est, September 1943.
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World War II. Athletes taking the oath. Paris, parc des Princes, June 29th, 1941.
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Elephant procession in the streets of Paris. March, 1941.
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World War II. German soldiers buying ice creams. Paris, 1940.
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1939-1945 War. Policemen taking the oath, in Chaillot palace, in Paris, January, 1942 (photograph forbidden by the censorship).
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World War II. Dog dragging a cart full of milk cans. Paris, 1941.
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World War II. Meeting of the Paris North African section of the French League founded by Pierre Costantini, in March 1941.
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World War II. Wedding on a cycle taxi, at the place de la Madeleine. Paris, December 1941.
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Cleaning street lamps on the place Vendôme. Paris (Ist arrondissement), 1944.
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World War II. Madeleine-Bastille double decker bus, near the Paris Opera, on June 17, 1941.
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Electric cars. On the left : car with aluminium bodywork designed by Paul Arzens (at the steering wheel). On the right : coupé made by the Bréguet workshops. Paris, July 1942.
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Guerre 1939-1945. Jeunes partant travailler en Allemagne. Paris, janvier 1943.
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Balloons at the Villacoublay air show (France), 1938.
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Ticket seller of the national lottery. Paris, 1956.
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Louis Aragon, French writer, on March, 1945.
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The queen Elizabeth (1900-2002), king George VI of England's wife.
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Louis Lumière (1864-1948), photographed next to a projector, October 1943.
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Hitch-hicker on the road between Trégastel and Perros-Guirrec (Côtes-d'Armor) in Brittany, 1938.
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World War II. The Marshal Pétain greeting mayors from Gironde, with on the first row, Sabatier, Region prefect, Vichy, September 1943.
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Grape harvest in the Champagne region (Möet et Chandon). France, 1941.
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Lowering of the Seine water level in Paris. Small boats grounded in the mud. August, 1942.
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