Swiss Collection

Poster advertising Evian les Bains
Poster for French railways advertising Evian les Bains, on the southern side of Lake Geneva, just across the border in Switzerland

Switzerland - Andeer - decorated house Haus Padrun (1501)
Switzerland - Andeer - decorated house Haus Padrun (Chasa Padrun) (1501). Date: circa 1910s

Carl Gustav Jung
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Swiss psychologist in 1940

Carl Gustav Jung
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Swiss psychologist at his desk

Swiss Scenery - Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau
The peaks of the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau, Switzerland Date: circa 1908

Poster, Wengernalp Jungfrau Railway, Switzerland
Poster advertising the Wengernalp Jungfrau Railway, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, designed by Francois Gos. Date: circa 1950s

Poster advertising St Moritz for winter sports
Poster advertising St Moritz in Switzerland for winter sports

View of Zurich and distant alps, Switzerland

Two cows with bells round their necks in Alpine scenery. Date: circa 1970s

Swiss Mountain Railway
The Swiss have more mountains than most people - and more railways to carry you up them. This is the electric rack- railway of Gernergrat, starting at Zermatt

Hotels Viktoria and Jungfrau, Interlaken, Berne, Switzerland
Hotel Viktoria and Hotel Jungfrau, Interlaken, Berne, Switzerland

Farmlands, Donegal (c.1929 - 30). Iten, Hans 1874-1930. Date: 1929-1930 (circa)

Shield and flag of Switzerland with Edelweiss flower. Date: circa 1903

Statue of William Tell and his son in Altdorf, Switzerland (Richard Kissling, 1895) Date: circa 1930s

Alpine Horn
Man blowing a traditional horn in the Alps. Date: 1930s

Switzerland / Zermatt
The Matterhorn towering over the ski resort of Zermatt, Switzerland. Date: 1960s

Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Les Diablerets - a village and ski resort located in the municipality of Ormont-Dessus in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Date: circa 1920s

The Reichenbach Falls close to Meiringen, Switzerland. It was alongside these falls where the famous detective Sherlock Holmes fell to his death, as he struggled with his arch-enemy Moriarty

Curling at Crans Montana, Switzerland
Postcard showing a scene at the Swiss ski and winter sports resort, Crans Montana in the Swiss Alps with some presumably well-known curling experts of the 1930s, including Walker and Worthington

BANANAS
Banana Monstera Deliciosa, aka Fruit Salad Plant, Cariman, Mexican Breadfruit, Locust & Wild Honey, Windowleaf, Monsterio, Swiss Cheese Plant etc

Poster for the Grand Prix of the Nations in Geneva on 21st July 1946

Alexandre Yersin
ALEXANDRE EMILE JOHN YERSIN Swiss medical, associated with Roux, discovered plague virus, directed Pasteur Institute in Vietnam

Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist

Gandria - northern shore of Lake Lugano, Switzerland
Gandria - a quarter of the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, and a village, on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, Switzerland. Date: circa 1930s

View of Meiringen, Berne, Switzerland
View in the town of Meiringen, Berne, Switzerland

Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) Swiss religious reformer

Marketplace at Pessina Street, Lugano, Switzerland
Section of the Marketplace at Pessina Street, Lugano, Switzerland Date: circa 1910s

Piccard 1931 Ascent - 4
Drawing showing the balloon in which Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard plans to fly higher than anyone has ever flown before - a project which will be realised in May

Piccard 1931 Ascent - 1
Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, with colleague Kipfer, reaches record altitude of 16, 201m, ascending from Augsburg and coming down in the Austrian Alps Date: 27 May 1931

Spelterini over Alps
Swiss aviator Eduard Spelterini achieves the first flight over the Swiss Alps in his balloon Wega

King Bhumibol Adulyadej and future Queen Sirikit
King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) (1927-) and future Queen Sirikit (1932-) whilst still students in Lausanne, Switzerland. Date: 1949

Travel poster (Tirol)
Travel poster for the Swiss Tirol. Date: 1940

Liza Maugham and Vincent Paravicini
Front cover of The Bystander announcing the engagement of Liza Maugham and Vincent Paravinci. He was the Swiss ministers son, she was the daughter of the author William Somerset Maugham. 1936

Advertisement for Geneva, Switzerland. circa 1960

Advertisement for Son et Lumiere, Sion, Switzerland
Advertisement for a Son et Lumiere festival at Sion, Valais, Switzerland. circa 1960

JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875-1961). Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist. Founder of analytical psychology. Oil

Montreux Grand Prix 1934 - Painting by Andrew McGeachy
The Montreux Grand Prix of 1934, held on 3rd June and won by Carlo Felice Trossi in an Alfa Romeo (car number 6 - shown here in the lead). Date: 1934

Morcote, Ticino, Lake Lugano, Switzerland
Morcote is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Ticino situated about 10 kilometres from Lugano in the district of Lugano on the shore of Lake Lugano. Date: circa 1930s

Blowing an Alpenhorn, Switzerland
A Swiss alphorn (alpenhorn, alpine horn or labrophone) player. The instrument consists of a natural wooden horn with a cup-shaped mouthpiece is used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland

SWISS ALPS
The Grandes Jorasses

Poster, Sils, Engadin, Switzerland. circa 1930

Outdoor Curling Match on the ice at Bern, Switzerland. Date: circa 1907

Carthusian Monks
Carthusian monks of the tranquil monastery of La Valsainte, Switzerland, drinking from the village well, oblivious of World War Two. Date: early 1940s

The Swiss National Yodeling Champion - Franz Lotscher
The Swiss National Yodeling (also yodelling or jodeling) Champion - Master Yodeler Franz Lotscher - pictured with his array of trophies at the Hotel Sempacherhof at Sempach, Lucerne, Switzerland

Poster advertising trips to Lucerne, Switzerland, showing people in a boat on the river. 20th century

Leysin, Switzerland - Hotel du Chamossaire and the Ice Rink Date: circa 1910s

Poster, Lugano, Switzerland. 20th century

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