14 datasets found

  • 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...

    Last updated: August 30, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • glam
    • openglam
    • photography
    • tourism
  • Historical photographs from the album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“ (approx. 1892)

    OpenGLAM CH Working Group
    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...

    Last updated: June 29, 2016

    • HTML
    • architecture
    • geography
    • glam
    • history
    • landscape
    • openglam
    • photography
    • railway
    • tourism
  • PIA IIIF API

    Participatory Image Archives
    Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector

    The material that can be consumed through the APIs is part of two collections from the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. The first collection spans more than 100 years...

    Last updated: October 1, 2022

    • API
    • photography
    • cultural-heritage
    • switzerland
    • basel
    • everyday-life
    • documentation
    • journalism
    • vintage-photography
    • family-photos
  • PIA Metadata API

    Participatory Image Archives
    Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector

    The material that can be consumed through the APIs is part of two collections from the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. The first collection spans more than 100 years...

    Last updated: October 1, 2022

    • API
    • photography
    • cultural-heritage
    • switzerland
    • basel
    • everyday-life
    • documentation
    • journalism
    • vintage-photography
    • family-photos
  • Photos by the Swiss photographer, pilot and aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)

    ETH Library
    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...

    Last updated: May 12, 2017

    • TIFF
    • SERVICE
    • aerial-photograph
    • aerial-picture
    • aerophoto
    • glam
    • openglam
    • photography
  • Photographs of historical railway bridges (ca. 1882-1966)

    OpenGLAM CH Working Group
    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...

    Last updated: June 28, 2016

    • TIFF
    • architecture
    • geography
    • glam
    • history
    • landscape
    • openglam
    • photography
    • railway
  • Historical photographs of protective structures along the Gotthard railway line (1911-1935)

    OpenGLAM CH Working Group
    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...

    Last updated: June 24, 2016

    • TIFF
    • architecture
    • geography
    • glam
    • gotthard
    • landscape
    • openglam
    • photography
    • railway
  • Swiss Photography Metadata

    OpenGLAM CH Working Group
    Education, culture and sport

    The database serves as a finding aid for photography collections and estates in Switzerland. Please note that the biographical texts and the texts covering institutions and...

    Last updated:

    • JSON
    • glam
    • openglam
    • photography
  • The Canton of Jura 1892-1932 through the lens of Eugène Cattin

    OpenGLAM CH Working Group
    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...

    Last updated:

    • TIFF
    • glam
    • openglam
    • photography
  • Photos of shoes in the collection of the Shoe Museum Lausanne

    OpenGLAM CH Working Group
    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 on...

    Last updated: February 27, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • craft
    • glam
    • handcraft
    • openglam
    • photography
    • shoe
    • shoes
  • Historical Photographs of Wetzikon

    OpenGLAM CH Working Group
    Education, culture and sport

    The Municipal Archives Wetzikon have made a set of historical photographs from the album of Fritz Wiesendanger (photographer in Wetzikon, †1917) available.

    Last updated: February 19, 2015

    • HTML
    • archaeology
    • architecture
    • built-heritage
    • glam
    • heritage
    • openglam
    • photographs
    • photography
    • science-history
  • Photographs of Contemporary Musicians of the Canton of Vaud

    OpenGLAM CH Working Group
    Education, culture and sport

    The Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne collects archives, music scores and publications about the musicians related to the State of Vaud. These pictures portray local and...

    Last updated: May 12, 2016

    • HTML
    • glam
    • musician
    • musicians
    • openglam
    • photographs
    • photography
    • portrait
    • portraits
    • vaud
  • Photographs on Thomas Mann

    ETH Library
    Education, culture and sport

    The Thomas Mann Archives have released around 2,000 images. The main subjects include portraits of Thomas Mann and members of the Mann-Pringsheim family, family scenes and...

    Last updated: September 7, 2017

    • TIFF
    • archive
    • glam
    • literature
    • openglam
    • photographs
    • photography
    • portrait
    • portraits
  • Items from the Collections of the Historical Museum Basel

    Canton of Basel-City and City of Basel
    Education, culture and sport

    Since 2014, the Basel Historical Museum is making high-quality, high-resolution images of items from its collections available on Wikimedia Commons. In fall 2014, a first set of...

    Last updated: October 16, 2014

    • HTML
    • glam
    • openglam
    • photography
    • print