The Rol agency is a photographic reporting agency created in 1904 by photographer Marcel ROL (1876-1905) and disappeared in 1937 due to its merger with the Meurisse and Mondial Photo Presse agencies. In 1904, the agency was run by Marcel ROL and Louis TRESCA. It is located at 37 rue Joubert, in Paris (9th arrondissement). The first photographs of the Rol-Tresca agency appeared in the sports review Armes et Sports in January 1904. ROL founded a second agency, called Marcel Rol et Cie, following the dissolution of the first company in December 1904. The location of the agency remains the same. After Marcel's death on September 17, 1905, Denis ROL, his father, until then the company's accountant, took the reins of the agency. He will preside over the move of the agency in 1908. At the beginning of the year, the agency moved to 4 rue Richer, an address that it would not leave until 1937. Denis ROL died on July 1, 1910. His wife, Mathilde, Marcel's mother, then ran the agency until April 1923. Mathilde ROL (born LIFFRAND) then sold the agency to photographer Georges DEVRED (1887-1932), who had worked for the agency since 1911. Georges DEVRED was director of the agency between 1923 and 1932. The agency continues its activity after the death of Georges DEVRED without the names of its leaders being known. The last photos of the agency appeared in June 1937. The Rol agency was first a photographic agency specializing in sports reporting (cycling, boxing, aeronautics ...), but it gradually broadens its reports to all aspects of the news, dealing with various subjects but mainly French, whether political, social, economic, cultural or sporting: the cycling Tour de France, fashion in races, cars and aeronautics but also subjects such as the First World War or the Exhibition Universal of 1937. The Rol agency also reports on diplomatic life: visits by heads of state, official ceremonies, etc.