Archival Reading of the Visible and Invisible Images and Traces of (or about) Social Care and Health Care in Bulgaria in the Period 1945-1989

The article seeks answers to the question of how the state policy in Bulgaria towards disabled and disadvantaged people, adults, and children in institutions in the years after the Second World War until the end of the 1980s is reflected in the archival photo documents. The study is based on 143,740 descriptions of photo films from the fund of “Bulgarian Photography” stored in the Central State Archive.