Photos - some of them aerial images - Walter Mittelholzer took during his adventurous flights to places like Spitzbergen (1923) or Persia (1925). See this Wikimedia Blog post for more information:…
The Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne collects archives, music scores and publications about the musicians related to the State of Vaud. These pictures portray local and significant artists who are still active. They were taken by the…
The Zentralbibliothek Solothurn holds an important collection of manuscripts predominantly from the later Middle Ages. The more than 100 codices are not only from Solothurn monasterys and convents, but also from a number of monasteries from the Upper…
This collection includes high-quality reproductions of more than 70 of the medieval manuscripts in the Basel University Library.Most of the manuscripts were written in the late 14th and 15th century. Theological works comprise two thirds of the total…
The Shoe Museum Lausanne's collection tells the story of footwear across Europe through the ages. Its collection consists of more than 400 objects (mainly reconstructions based on archaeological discoveries) of ancient footwear from Prehistoric times…
The archive of the Canton of Jura (Archives cantonales jurassiennes ArCJ), supported by Wikimedia CH, have uploaded their collection of works by the Swiss photographer Eugène Cattin (1866-1947) to Wikimedia Commons. Cattin was a professional…
This collection of maps from the Basel University Library includes more than 500 digitized maps, ranging from the 16th until the end of the 18th century. Some highlights included are the oldest available city-map of Paris (created by Olivier Truschet…
This collection is a MarcXML file pointing to complete scans of books with expired author's rights dating from 17th century up to 1914. It's a byproduct of the service "eBooks on Demand" provided by the library "am Guisanplatz" (BiG) of the…