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Geneva Conventions
Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector
The first Geneva Convention “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field”, was signed 150 years ago, on 22 August 1864. The original document fro...
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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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Carl Durheim’s police photographs of stateless persons
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Economy and finance
In 1852 and 1853 Carl Durheim, a pioneering photographer from Bern, was commissioned by the Confederation to photograph hundreds of stateless persons and travellers who had been...
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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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19th-century decisions of the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Energy, Justice, legal system and public safety, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Government and public sector, Transport, Economy and finance
Transcriptions of the separate resolutions of the 19th-century Government Council of the Canton of Zurich. Encoded as TEI-conforming XML files. This data was created by the TKR ...
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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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Historical photographs of protective structures along the Gotthard railway li...
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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Historic Prints from the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn
Education, culture and sport
Around 1200 historic prints from the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn collection at Wikimedia Commons. A diversity of facets of Solothurn history can be found in them, from documenta...
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Latin abbreviations contained in Adriano Cappelli’s Lexicon Abbreviaturarum
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...
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Journal de Genève / Gazette de Lausanne (1914)
Education, culture and sport
The Historical database of Le Temps comprises 3 newspapers over 200 years. The Journal de Genève ran from 1826 to 1998, the Gazette de Lausanne (under different names) from 1798...
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Basic Metadata of the Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
The goal of e-codices is to provide access to medieval and modern manuscripts of Switzerland via a virtual library. On the e-codices website, complete digital reproductions o...
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Medieval manuscripts in the Basel University Library
Education, culture and sport
This collection includes high-quality reproductions of more than 70 of the medieval manuscripts in the Basel University Library. Most of the manuscripts were written in the l...
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Medieval manuscripts in the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn
Education, culture and sport
The Zentralbibliothek Solothurn holds an important collection of manuscripts predominantly from the later Middle Ages. The more than 100 codices are not only from Solothurn mona...
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Public Domain Music Recordings and Metadata
Education, culture and sport
The Swiss Foundation Public Domain is a charitable foundation specialized in the conservation and utilization of public domain music and film material. Its archives include over...
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Swiss GLAM Inventory
Education, culture and sport
Inventory of heritage institutions in Switzerland (including institutions in Liechtenstein). The inventory has been compiled from various sources.
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Swiss Theatre Metadata
Education, culture and sport
The Swiss theatre metadata gathered by the Swiss Theatre Collection contains information about ca. 55’000 professional theatre productions in Switzerland, mainly from the mid-20...
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SwissJazzOrama Jazz Metadata
Education, culture and sport
SwissJazzOrama collects and archives all kinds of sound carriers, pictures, literature and other testimonies from the Jazz universe. It collects information about as many differ...
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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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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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e-rara.ch, the platform for digitized rare books from Swiss libraries
Education, culture and sport
e-rara.ch is the portal for digitised printed works from Swiss libraries. These works range from books and maps to illustrated materials – from the earliest days of book printin...
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