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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 comprises more than 5000 digitised photos with metadata from the collection "Landesverteidigung 1848-1950" (call number E27#06.H.3.k.2, files 14093 to 14096) in the Swiss Federal Archive.

The collection includes over 5500 books in PDF format. The books are indexed to make theirfull text searchable. The texts are available around the world and can be used for private purposes. Users must check the copyright status of documents before…

Max van Berchem, born 1863 in Geneva, was an orientalist, specialist in Islamic Archaeology and a photographer. He undertook research trips to Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Turkey.Between working in the Middle East he photographed many historically…

Collection of texts, images, maps and geo data.

The Office of Urban Planning of the City of Zurich (Amt für Städtebau der Stadt Zürich) has made the highly successful publication “Zurich 1799” freely available. Included are the raw text of…

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.…