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The city archive of Baden has released approx. 5000 images (as of December 2016) of digitized material in the collections of the historical museum of Baden and the city administration.

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…

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…

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 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 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.

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…