Photoglob-Wehrli Archive

The Photoglob-Wehrli archive at the Swiss National Library is part of the Federal Archives of Historic Monuments (FAHM) held by the Prints and Drawings Department. Over 12,000 photographs have been digitised with the support of MEMORIAV and made available to the public as high-quality image files on Wikimedia Commons. The Photoglob-Wehrli archive comprises a total of some 43,500 individual image units by various photographers that were produced between c. 1897 and c. 1934 on behalf of the Wehrli company. In addition, there are picture postcards and 203 sample albums for the selection of postcard designs (including some vintage prints). The Photoglob-Wehrli archive includes black and white photographs in the form of glass negatives, plastic negatives and plastic slides (predominantly in the formats 13 x 18cm and 18 x 24cm), as well as photo prints from the 1970s. The main subjects are Swiss landscapes and views of places, towns and villages, neighbourhoods, individual buildings and tourist attractions (in particular in Graubünden, Central Switzerland, the Bernese Oberland, Valais and the Lake Geneva region, and the Lake Zurich region). The Photoglob-Wehrli archive is catalogued in the HelveticArchives database.