Digitised image documents

The NL digitises image documents such as prints, photographs, picture postcards, pictures and plans from the Prints and Drawings Department, the Swiss Literary Archives and the Centre Dürrenmatt in accordance with its principles of digitisation. Some collections are accessible in digital form in their entirety  and in high resolution, others only in part and for illustrative purposes. 

Principles of digitisation

Many freely usable images (public domain works) can be downloaded in high resolution from Wikimedia Commons.

• Wikimedia Commons – Image documents of the NL online

Research and access

• HelveticArchives
• Online inventory of the pictorial works of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• Daniel Spoerri archive in HelveticArchives
• Swiss Poster Collection

Available in high resolution on Wikimedia Commons:

• Adolf Pochon archive on Wikimedia Commons
• Digitalised photos from the Wehrli archive on Wikimedia Commons
• Digitised photos from the Zinggeler archive on Wikimedia Commons
• Digitised views of places and landscapes on Wikimedia Commons
• Gugelmann Collection on Wikimedia Commons
• High-resolution Spelterini images on Wikimedia Commons
• Images by Max van Berchem on Wikimedia Commons
• Marc Gonthier archive on Wikimedia Commons
• Mushroom illustrations on Wikimedia Commons
• Photographs and photograms from the Rudolf Fechter archive and photos of the photogrammetric cameras of Meydenbauer (late 19th / early 20th centuries)
• Plans by Wanner on Wikimedia Commons

The Annemarie Schwarzenbach photo collection

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  Some of the NL's prints, particularly out of the collection of views of places and landscapes, are available on the German portal ‘Graphikportal’.
  

  • Prints of the NL on the German portal ‘Graphikportal’