The Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) are the Confederation's service and competence centre for lasting information management. They appraise, secure, describe and provide access to archive-worthy records of the Swiss Confederation.

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3 datasets found

  • Fonds overview: Federal State since 1848

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector

    The fonds overview of the Swiss Federal Archives’ database guides users within the holdings of the Federal State since 1848 (main department E). It offers an easy starting point...

    Last updated: August 24, 2017

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    • authorities
    • communication
    • culture
    • economy
    • education
    • energy
    • environment
    • finances
    • foreign-policy
    • glam
    • health
    • justice
    • national-defence
    • openglam
    • people
    • police
    • science
    • social-security
    • state
    • transport
    • work
  • Archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector

    Metadata of the fonds in the Swiss Federal Archives. Currently the metadata of 3.84 million files and 257'000 documents are available online (august 2020). Including over 25’000...

    Last updated: August 14, 2020

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    • active-service
    • agricultural-research-institutes
    • agriculture
    • archives
    • armament
    • armed-forces
    • armed-forces-material
    • armed-forces-staff
    • art
    • authorities
    • banks
    • border-guard
    • censorship
    • civil-aviation
    • civil-defence
    • civil-status
    • coinage
    • commerce
    • commercial-register-and-property-law-register
    • communications
    • consulates
    • council-of-states
    • credit-institutions
    • culture
    • customs
    • customs-administration
    • customs-districts
    • development-cooperation
    • economy-economic-affairs
    • education
    • embassies
    • emigration
    • employee-protection
    • energy
    • environment
    • environmental-protection
    • extra-parliamentary-committees
    • federal-administration
    • federal-assembly
    • federal-buildings
    • federal-chancellery
    • federal-council
    • federal-parliament
    • finance-administration
    • finances
    • fishing
    • foreign-economic-affairs
    • foreign-policy
    • forestry
    • foundations
    • gain-administration
    • general
    • general-defence
    • general-staff
    • glam
    • government
    • head-of-department
    • health
    • housing
    • hunting
    • hydraulic-engineering
    • immigration
    • industry
    • intellectual-property
    • international-cooperation
    • international-organisations
    • investigation
    • investment-funds
    • justice
    • labour-law
    • land-improvement
    • land-register
    • legislation
    • media
    • meteorology
    • migration-authority
    • military-insurance
    • military-justice
    • military-leadership
    • national-budget
    • national-council
    • national-defence
    • national-supply
    • navigation
    • office-of-the-armed-forces-attorney-general
    • office-of-the-attorney-general-of-switzerland
    • openglam
    • parliamentary-committees
    • parliamentary-services
    • people
    • personnel-employed-by-the-confederation
    • police
    • postal-services
    • precious-metals
    • private-insurance
    • protection-of-foreign-interests
    • railways
    • refugees
    • research
    • road-construction
    • road-transport
    • saving-bank
    • school
    • science
    • science-policy
    • service-branches
    • social-insurance
    • social-security
    • spatial-planning
    • sports
    • state
    • statistics
    • swiss-representation-abroad
    • tax-administration
    • taxes
    • telecommunications
    • tenant-protection
    • topography
    • tourism
    • trade
    • transport
    • unemployment-insurance
    • veterinary-services
    • war-economy
    • water-management
    • welfare
    • work
  • Historical photograph collection “Active service in the First World War”

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector

    The “Active service in the First World War” (1914-1918) photograph collection comprises 5,125 digitised glass plate negatives and their metadata from the fonds “National Defence...

    Last updated: October 23, 2014

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    • active-service
    • air-force
    • first-world-war
    • glam
    • manoeuvres
    • national-defence
    • officers
    • openglam
    • photographs
    • soldiers
    • swiss-army
    • swiss-history
    • troops
    • war
    • weapons