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Early modern travel literature
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 curios...
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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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Zurich Overnight Visitor Logs ("Nachtzedel")
Population and society, Regions and cities
The digital copies of the "Zürcher Nachtzedel (1780 to 1818)" were produced between 2023 and 2024 in the digitization center of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich and are published on...
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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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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...