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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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    • economy
    • education
    • energy
    • environment
    • finances
    • foreign-policy
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • saving-bank
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    • social-insurance
    • social-security
    • spatial-planning
    • sports
    • state
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    • tax-administration
    • taxes
    • telecommunications
    • tenant-protection
    • topography
    • tourism
    • trade
    • transport
    • unemployment-insurance
    • veterinary-services
    • war-economy
    • water-management
    • welfare
    • work
  • Carl Durheim’s police photographs of stateless persons

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    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...

    Last updated: December 15, 2014

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    • immigration
    • immigration-police
    • migration
    • openglam
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