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Bildersammlung Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Education, culture and sport
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 1908 in Zürich geboren, 1942 in Sils gestorben, gehört zu den herausragenden Schweizer Reporterinnen der 1930er und 1940er Jahre. Sie bezeichnete sich s...
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Eduard Spelterini image collection
Education, culture and sport
Between 1890 and 1910 Eduard Spelterini (1852-1931) undertook a number of travels by balloon over Switzerland and other countries. While doing this, he took photographs from ab...
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Photoglob-Wehrli Archive
Education, culture and sport
The Photoglob-Wehrli archive at the Swiss National Library is part of the Federal Archives of Historic Monuments (FAHM) held by the Prints and Drawings Department. Over 12,000 p...
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Swiss Book (2001 - )
Education, culture and sport
The Swiss Book is the National Bibliography of Switzerland and is compiled, edited and published by the Swiss National Library (NL). The Swiss Book indexes Swiss publishing outp...
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The Gugelmann Collection (Schweizer Kleinmeister)
Education, culture and sport
Since 1982, the Swiss National Library (NL) has been home to the Gugelmann Collection, a large group of works by the Schweizer Kleinmeister - Swiss 18th century masters - assemb...
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Digitised publications
Education, culture and sport
The digitized collections available through this portal include over 8,500 books in PDF format with integrated optical character recognition. These texts are available worldwide...
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Max van Berchem image collection
Education, culture and sport
Born in Geneva in 1863, Max van Berchem was an Orientalist, specialist in Islamic archaeology and photographer. He travelled to Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Turkey to carry out r...
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Handschriften Rainer Maria Rilke
Education, culture and sport
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875 in Prag geboren, 1926 in der Schweiz gestorben, zählt zu den bedeutendsten Dichtern der literarischen Moderne. Sein Werk umfasst vor allem Lyrik, aber a...
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The Stapfer-Enquête: schooling in Switzerland 1799
Population and society, Education, culture and sport
Database containing the results of the Stapfer-Enquête: The Stapfer-Enquête is a unique survey of the school situation in the Helvetic Republic dating from 1799. It was initiate...
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The Stapfer-Enquête: schooling in Switzerland 1799 (RDF)
Population and society, Education, culture and sport
Database containing the results of the Stapfer-Enquête: The Stapfer-Enquête is a unique survey of the school situation in the Helvetic Republic dating from 1799. It was initiate...
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Historical photograph collection “Active service in the First World War”
Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector
The “Active service in the First World War” (1914-1918) photograph collection comprises 5,125 digitised glass plate negatives and their metadata from the fonds “National Defence...
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eBooks on demand (EOD)
Education, culture and sport
eBooks on Demand is a document delivery service at a charge, enabling the order of complete electronic copies of copyright-free books published between 17th century and 1914.
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Bibliographic Records from the Alexandria Library Network
Education, culture and sport
Currently, the Alexandria library network comprises 16 libraries and documentation agencies within and outside the Confederation. The library catalog of this network contains mo...
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Carl Durheim’s police photographs of stateless persons
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Economy and finance
In 1852 and 1853 Carl Durheim, a pioneering photographer from Bern, was commissioned by the Confederation to photograph hundreds of stateless persons and travellers who had been...