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Photos by Swiss aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)
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:…
Photographs of Contemporary Musicians of the Canton of Vaud (Switzerland)
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…
Manuscripts in the holding of the Municipal Library Schaffhausen
This collection includes high-quality reproductions of more than 25 of the medieval manuscripts in the Municipal Library Schaffhausen.
Medieval manuscripts in the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn
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…
Medieval manuscripts in the Basel University Library
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…
Shoes in the collection of the Shoe Museum Lausanne
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 Canton of Jura 1892-1932 through the lens of Eugène Cattin
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…
Historical maps in the collection of the Basel University Library
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…
Books digitized by the "eBooks on Demand"-service of the Alexandria library network
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…