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Maps from the collection “Magnificent Atlases” with title cartouches

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
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” were...

Zurich Overnight Visitor Logs ("Nachtzedel")

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Population and society, Regions and cities

Data and metadata

The digital copies of the "Zürcher Nachtzedel (1780 to 1818)" were produced between 2023 and 2024 in the digitization center of the Zentralbibliothek...

Promptuarium Genealogicum by Carl Keller-Escher

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Population and society

This dataset contains image links, full texts and metadata of the 7 volumes of the "Promptuarium genealogicum" by Carl Keller-Escher (1851-1916). This genealogical work of around...

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...

Early modern travel literature

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Education, culture and sport

Printed travelogues from the 16th to the 19th century shaped the ideas of foreign countries and continents. They informed, alienated and dramatised and thus satisfied the curiosity...