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This collection contains historical photos of the organization „Wandervogel. Schweizerischer Bund für alkoholfreie Jugendwanderungen“. Wandervogel is the name adopted by a popular movement of German youth groups from 1896 onward. The…

Over 6.000 prints (books, maps or music prints) from the Basel University Library from the 15th to the 19th century, including a lot of early prints from the 16th century.For a number of pointers to the collection (in German) please see…

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…

Nearly 20.000 manuscripts, letters, music notes, maps, pictures… from the Basel University Library including correspondence from the well-known Bernoulli dynasty of mathematicians.

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…

The photographs in this collection were taken between 1912 and 1916 during the construction of the Hauenstein railway tunnel. They're part of the extensive photo archive of the Heritage Foundation SBB (SBB Historic).The Hauenstein base tunnel…

All data of the Archives Portal Europe can now be made available via an new API. The ETH Zurich University Archives is one of the APE content providers that allow their finding aids to be accessed and re-used this way.

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:…

This collection includes high-quality reproductions of more than 25 of the medieval manuscripts in the Municipal Library Schaffhausen.

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…