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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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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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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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Photos of the Construction of the Hauenstein Base Tunnel
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Transport, Economy and finance
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 ...
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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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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.