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Photographs of historical railway bridges (ca. 1882-1966)
This collection includes photographs of bridges in the Swiss Federal Railways' former Kreis II. They were taken around the period from 1882 to 1966. The Kreis II had its administrative center in Lucerne and was one out of three major regions in which…
Historical photographs of protective structures along the Gotthard railway line (1911-1935)
The photographs contained in this collection stem from an album named "protective structures along the Gotthard railway line" („Schutzbauten an der Gotthardlinie“). The Gotthard railway line is secured by a large number of walls,…
Historical photographs from the album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“ (approx. 1892)
The 60 photographs contained in the lavishly designed album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“ takes viewers leafing through it on a picturesque journey from the heart of Switzerland way down south. It combines views of the…
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:…
Illustration Archive
The Illustration Archive was created on the ‘Lost Visions’ project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2014-15), and was the result of collaboration between humanities specialists and computer scientists at Cardiff University.…
Inventory of Historical Monuments (Canton of Zurich)
Inventory of historical monuments in the Canton of Zurich (Denkmalschutzobjekte).
New York Public Library - Open Access Maps
NYPL offers more than 20,000 historical cartographic works as high resolution downloads under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.