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Digitized Images from Old Books about Africa

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

2500+ images extracted from Old Books (1598-1907) about Africa with the corresponding metadata.

You can browse the images in PARC (Portal for African Research Collections) :...

Tessin literary map

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Geolocated quotes and places related to author of books from and about Tessin

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....

The Canton of Jura 1892-1932 through the lens of Eugène Cattin

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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...

Selection of photographs collected by the archaeologist Albert Naef

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities, Economy and finance

In partnership with Wikimedia CH, the Archives cantonales vaudoises have uploaded a selection of photographies collected by the archaeologist Albert Naef to Wikimedia Commons on...

Ernst Klöti Slides collection - ZB Solothurn

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Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities, Economy and finance

Ernst Klöti, working as a teacher in the municipalities of Aeschi and Luterbach in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, took photographs of the canton and other regions on slide...

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...

Metadata of PARC - Portal for African Research Collections

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

PARC is the meta-catalogue for the Africana collections at the research location Basel. It contains more than 250'000 objects, books, photographs,...

Historical maps in the collection of the Basel University Library

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities

This collection of maps from the Basel University Library includes more than 500 digitized maps, ranging from the 16th until the end of the 18th century. Some highlights included...

Sammlung Europa, Museum der Kulturen Basel

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Education, culture and sport

Das Museum der Kulturen Basel (MKB) ist das grösste ethnologische Museum der Schweiz und eines der bedeutendsten seiner Art in Europa. Seine Sammlung geniesst Weltruf und zählt...

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.

21st Century Swiss video games

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

A table with information about (initially 21st Century, released) independent video games created by Swiss game developers or studios.

Rousseau Online: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Collection complète des oeuvres

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

rousseauonline.ch gives access to the complete works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) in their first reference edition, in 17 volumes and almost 10'000 pages, published in...

Photographs of Items from the Musée Bolo's Collection

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Education, culture and sport

The Musée Bolo is an exhibition at the School of Computer And Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne. Currently it houses around...

Medieval manuscripts in the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn

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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...

Photos of shoes in the collection of the Shoe Museum Lausanne

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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...

Journal de Genève / Gazette de Lausanne (1914)

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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 to...

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...

Herbarium of the University of Neuchâtel

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Education, culture and sport, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food

The University of Neuchâtel is the owner or custodian of a huge collection of herbarium specimens dating back to the 18th century and containing 475,000 plates of undeniable...

Basic descriptive bibliographic and usage data of Lucernense collections 17.-21. century

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern is the cantonal and academic library of the canton of Lucerne and holds in its collections, among others, publications from and about...