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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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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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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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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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Bauhistorische Fotosammlung von Uster (1893-1909) von Julius Gujer
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Economy and finance
Diese Teilauswahl des Fotobestandes von Julius Gujer bietet einen Einblick in den **Baumwollindustriestandort Uster Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts**. Durch eine umfangreiche Gebä...
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Historische Fotografien des Forstbetriebes Sihlwald,1878-1962
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Environment
Das Stadtarchiv Zürich hat im Sommer 2004 in Zusammenarbeit mit Grün Stadt Zürich (dem das ehemalige **Stadtforstamt** zugeordnet ist) einen wertvollen Bestand historischer Foto...
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Grundlagendaten zur Publikation «Zürich 1799»
Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities
Die Grundlagendaten der Publikation „Zürich 1799“ - Texte, Bilder, Karten und Geodaten - wurden anlässlich des 1. Schweizer „Kultur-Hackathons“ von Ende Februar 2015 als offene ...
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Fotosammlung: Wandervogel - Schweizerischer Bund für alkoholfreie Jugendwanderungen
Education, culture and sport, Environment
Diese frühe Jugendbewegung suchte und fand ihre Freiräume in der Natur: beim Spielen im Wald, beim Tanzen auf der Wiese und beim Wandern in den Bergen. Ganz wichtig dabei war di...
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Pfarrbücher der Stadt Zürich, Tauf- und Ehebuch Grossmünster 1708 - 1762
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector
Die Pfarrbücher der Pfarrämter bzw. Kirchengemeinden der Stadt Zürich enthalten **Taufen, Ehen, Todesfälle** und oft auch **Konfirmationen**. Sie sind im Stadtarchiv Zürich in...
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Bildarchiv des Lebensmittelverein Zürich (LVZ)
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Energy
Das Bildarchiv der LVZ ist einer der reichhaltigsten Bildbestände des Sozialarchivs. Es umfasst über 1'600 Fotos, Negative, Dias, Glasdias und Objekte zur Geschichte des Lebensm...
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Bildarchiv des Schweizerischen Arbeiterhilfswerks (SAH) - Oeuvre suisse...
Education, culture and sport
Während der letzten Jahre des Zweiten Weltkriegs nahm das [**Schweizerische Arbeiterhilfswerk (SAH)**](http://www.sah-schweiz.ch/) eine ausgedehnte Versorgungs- und Unterstützun...
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Maps from the collection “Magnificent Atlases” with title cartouches
Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities
A selection of about 1930 maps from the collection "[Magnificent Atlases: From the Beginnings to the Golden Age](https://www.e-rara.ch/atlanten/nav/classification/26780995)” wer...
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VSJF-Refugees Migration
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport
The VSJF-Refugees Migration data are an excerpt of the VSJF-database hosted at the Archives of Contemporary History, ETH Zurich. The database contains data sets of refugees whic...
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Text of the Book «Rolle and its former district»
Education, culture and sport, Economy and finance
The Society for Art History in Switzerland (German: Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte GSK, French: Société d'histoire de l'art en Suisse SHAS, Italian: Società di ...
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Latin abbreviations contained in Adriano Cappelli’s Lexicon Abbreviaturarum
Education, culture and sport
This collection contains the data of the most commonly used reference work on latin abbreviations, Cappelli’s Lexicon Abbreviaturarum (Cappelli, Adriano: Lexicon Abbreviaturarum...
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Gramophone Collection - Swiss National Sound Archives
Education, culture and sport
Gramophone is a project of the Swiss National Sound Archives, which aims to safeguard and enhance a number of historical sound recordings (on cylinders and 78rpm records) preser...
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Historical Photos «Vues de la suisse» by Adolphe Braun & Cie.
Education, culture and sport, Transport, Economy and finance
In the middle of the 19th century Jean Adolphe Braun inspired the imagination of the European bourgeoisie with his photos. From the 1850s onwards, more and more people had the f...
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Metadata of Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (MEG) collections
Education, culture and sport
This is the metadata of the collections of the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève. You can browse the collections under <https://www.meg.ch/en/research-collections/catalogue-coll...
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Photographs by Robert Breitinger
Education, culture and sport
Robert Breitinger-Wyder was a heating engineer and stove manufacturer in Zürich. At age 45, he took up the hobby of photography, like so many of the bourgeoisie in Zürich at tha...
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Digitized rare books in the Basel University Library
Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Transport
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.
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Annotated references from journal issues and monographs on the history of Venice
Education, culture and sport
A dataset of annotated references (in both reference lists and footnotes) from journal issues and monographs on the history of Venice, created in the context of the LinkedBooks ...