News 4.4.2024
Update April 2024
NEW: Georg Mörsch (1940–, heritage conservationist)
Photographs of preservation of monuments in Switzerland and Europe and on art history
NEW: Institute of Geophysics
Swiss Seismological Service (SED) & Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich
NEW: Institute of Animal Science - Farm animals
Horse breeds, dragoons, Concours hippiques
Arnold Heim (1882–1965, geologist)
Extensive research trips to all parts of the world
Photographical Institute
Photography technology, ETH Zurich, history of photography
Industrial Culture Foundation
Industrial culture, infrastructure, Switzerland and worldwide, 1965-2021
Swissair Archive
The photo archive of the former airline Swissair
Walter Mittelholzer (1894–1937, photographer)
Domestic and international flights, aviation pioneer and co-founder of Swissair
Photo Swissair AG/Luftbild Schweiz
Aerial photographs of the whole of Switzerland, 1939-2011
Air Color
Oblique aerial photos all over Switzerland, 1985–2013 (selection)
Comet Photo AG, Archive of the aerial photographies
Oblique aerial photographs of Switzerland, 1957–1999 (digitalisation ongoing)
Comet Photo AG, Archive of the photographic agency
Reports on architecture, culture, politics, sport, technology and transport
New images
We constantly put new images online
Artificial intelligence
Automatically generated keywords/autotags using AI software Clarifai, metadata translated with DeepL
Pictorial Worlds
Photo book series of the ETH Library's Image Archive
Help - tips for research
The most important in brief
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Comment on or georeference images (crowdsourcing)