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Photos of shoes in the collection of the Shoe Museum Lausanne
Education, culture and sport
The Shoe Museum Lausanne's collection tells the story of footwear across Europe through the ages. Its collection consists of more than 400 examples (mainly reconstructions based...
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Photographs of historical railway bridges (ca. 1882-1966)
Education, culture and sport, Transport
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 adminis...
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Photos by the Swiss photographer, pilot and aviation pioneer Walter...
Education, culture and sport, Transport
Photos - many of them aerial images - Walter Mittelholzer took both in Switzerland and during his adventurous flights to places like Spitzbergen (1923), Persia (1924/25), across...
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Items from the Collections of the Historical Museum Basel
Education, culture and sport
Since 2014, the Basel Historical Museum is making high-quality, high-resolution images of items from its collections available on Wikimedia Commons. In fall 2014, a first set of...
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Swiss Photography Metadata
Education, culture and sport
The database serves as a finding aid for photography collections and estates in Switzerland. Please note that the biographical texts and the texts covering institutions and hold...
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Historical Photographs of Wetzikon
Education, culture and sport
The Municipal Archives Wetzikon have made a set of historical photographs from the album of Fritz Wiesendanger (photographer in Wetzikon, †1917) available.
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Historical photographs from the album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“...
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport
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 Swit...
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Historical photographs of protective structures along the Gotthard railway...
Education, culture and sport, Transport
The photographs contained in this collection stem from an album named "protective structures along the Gotthard railway line" («Schutzbauten an der Gotthardlinie»). The Gotthard...
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Photographs of Contemporary Musicians of the Canton of Vaud
Education, culture and sport
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 a...
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Photographs of Thomas Mann
Education, culture and sport
The Thomas Mann Archives have released around 2,000 images. The main subjects include portraits of Thomas Mann and members of the Mann-Pringsheim family, family scenes and holid...
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The Canton of Jura 1892-1932 through the lens of Eugène Cattin
Education, culture and sport
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 Ca...
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PIA IIIF API
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector
The material that can be consumed through the APIs is part of two collections from the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. The first collection spans more than 100 years...
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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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PIA Metadata API
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector
The material that can be consumed through the APIs is part of two collections from the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. The first collection spans more than 100 years...