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Historical photograph collection “Active service in the First World War”

Swiss Federal Archives SFA
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...

Correspondence Thomas Mann

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport

The correspondence of Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is part oft he holdings of the ETH Zurich Thomas-Mann-Archives. The collection contains about 24,000 units of descriptions of letters...

The Stapfer-Enquête: schooling in Switzerland 1799

Swiss Federal Archives SFA
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 initiated...

VSJF-Refugees Migration

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
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 which...

C. G. Jung Correspondence

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport

The academic correspondence of the famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) is part of the C. G. Jung Papers Collection held at the ETH Zurich University Archives. It...

Text of the Book «Rolle and its former district»

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
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...

Latin abbreviations contained in Adriano Cappelli’s Lexicon Abbreviaturarum

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
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....

Gramophone Collection - Swiss National Sound Archives

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
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) preserved...

Historical Photos «Vues de la suisse» by Adolphe Braun & Cie.

Swiss National Museum SNM
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...

Repräsentative Auswahl aus der Sammlung „Archäologie“ des Schweizerischen Nationalmuseums

Swiss National Museum SNM
Education, culture and sport

Die Sammlung umfasst Bodenfunde aus der Schweiz vom Paläolithikum bis zum frühen Mittelalter, d.h. von ca. 100'000 v. Chr. bis rund 800 n. Chr. Verschiedene Funde sind von...

Repräsentative Auswahl aus der Sammlung „Spezialsammlungen“ des Schweizerischen Nationalmuseums

Swiss National Museum SNM
Education, culture and sport

Es handelt sich um die Sammlungen Spielzeuge, Musikinstrumente mit Schwerpunkt Militärmusik, Zollwesen, Gebäckmodel, Zinnfiguren/Gussformen, sowie die Sammlung Hallwil.

Repräsentative Auswahl aus der Sammlung „Edel- & Buntmetall“ des Schweizerischen Nationalmuseums

Swiss National Museum SNM
Education, culture and sport

Edelmetall: Der Sammlungsbestand umfasst Objekte aus der sakralen und der profanen Goldschmiedekunst vom 12. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert. Schwerpunkte sind eine Gruppe von seltensten...

Repräsentative Auswahl aus der Sammlung „Malerei & Bildhauerei“ des Schweizerischen Nationalmuseums

Swiss National Museum SNM
Education, culture and sport

Malerei: Zum Bestand gehören die Gemälde mit Schwerpunkten bei der kirchlichen und historischen Kunst sowie der Porträtmalerei. Bei den Glasgemälden handelt es sich um die...

Repräsentative Auswahl aus der Sammlung „Numismatik & Siegel“ des Schweizerischen Nationalmuseums

Swiss National Museum SNM
Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector, Economy and finance

Numismatik: Das Münzkabinett beherbergt rund 100’000 Objekte, darunter neben Münzen und Medaillen auch Banknoten, Wertschriften, Kreditkarten sowie Münzprägestempel. Das zeitliche...

Repräsentative Auswahl aus der Sammlung „Keramik & Glas“ des Schweizerischen Nationalmuseums

Swiss National Museum SNM
Population and society, Education, culture and sport

Gefäss und Figurenkeramik: Die Sammlung umfasst mittelalterliche Gefässkeramik sowie in der Schweiz hergestellte und in der Schweiz verwendete Gefässe, Geschirr sowie Figuren,...

Metadata of Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (MEG) collections

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

This is the metadata of the collections of the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève.

You can browse the collections under...

Photographs by Robert Breitinger

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
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 that...

Digitized rare books in the Basel University Library

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
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.

Annotated references from journal issues and monographs on the history of Venice

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
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...

Institutional Topography of Administrative Detention in Switzerland, 1933-1980

Independent expert commission (IEC) administrative detention
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Government and public sector, Economy and finance

The data set comprises five directories of correctional and detention facilities and institutions in operation in Switzerland. The directories are dated to 1933, the 1940s, 1954,...