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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…

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,…

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…

Around 1200 historic prints from the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn collection at Wikimedia Commons. A diversity of facets of Solothurn history can be found in them, from documentation of long-vanished buildings to the advent of modern industry and…

Major Lee Moorhouse of Pendleton, Oregon was an Indian Agent for the Umatilla Indian Reservation and a photographer. From 1888 to 1916 he produced over 9,000 images which document urban, rural, and Native American life in the Columbia Basin, and…

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Its collections include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts,…

50 images from the scientific collection, includes excellent Charles Babbage related images. Available on Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.

Did you know that more than 180,000 of the items in our Digital Collections are in the public domain?
That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways. The Library now makes it possible to download such…

Hundreds of photos taken during the Great War from several countries

Pictures from a Dutch photograph press agency which ceased to exist in 1989.