 | | Year 1903
Dr. Otto Bettmann born on October 15 in Leipzig, Germany. | | | | Year 1936 Bettmann founds his archive in his one-bedroom apartment on W 44th Street, New York City. | | | |  | | Year 1960
Archive moves to the Tischman building on W 57th street, New York City. | | | | Year 1966 Archive publishes the first Bettmann Portable Archive. | | | |  | | Year 1972
Archive acquires the Underwood & Underwood Collection, a rich resource of negatives and prints from the late 19th century to World War I. | | | |
Year 1981
Bettmann sells the archive to the Kraus Thomson Organization. | |  | | Year 1995
Corbis acquires the Bettmann Archive. | | | | |
| | | | | Year 1935
Bettmann emigrates to the United States, carrying two steamer trunks full of pictures, books, and film. | |  | | | Year 1938 Archive contains 15,000 pictures.
| | | Year 1961
Bettmann and Peter Max, 1960s pop artist, develop Panopticon exhibit. | |  | | | | Year 1967
Archive acquires the Gendreau Collection, a forty-year collection of Americana. | |  | | | Year 1980 Archive contains two million pictures.
| | | Year 1984
Kraus-Thomson Organization acquires the extensive United Press International collection, millions of worldwide news and lifestyle photographs taken by photographers working for United Press International, International News Photos, Acme Newspictures, and Pacific and Atlantic. | | | | Year 2002
Corbis preserves the Archive, moving it to a safe facility in Pennsylvania. | |  | | |
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