Crucifers in the digital era
What are crucifers? Where do they occur? And which role do they play in today’s research? The digitised holdings of the United Herbaria of the University (Z) and ETH (ZT) Zurich offer some answers.
Search Results for: Arnold Heim
‘The Pilgrims of Science’: The First Swiss Himalayan Expedition of 1936
In 1936 Augusto Gansser (1910-2012) joined another Swiss geologist Arnold Heim (1882-1965) for the first Swiss expedition to the Himalayas that lasted for eight months. During the expedition both Heim and Gansser kept
Mittelholzer’s Double
Recently while researching an image of Arnold Heim with an Orang Utan I came across the first journal of Heim’s expedition to Sumatra in 1928. To my surprise in the journal there was a photograph showing a doppelganger of the Swiss pilot Walter Mittelholzer. Mere two years … Read more
In search of black gold – Swiss petroleum geologists and the nationalisation of crude oil in Iran
After the Second World War, in the early days of the Cold War, Iran gradually began to break away from the geopolitical power games and economic greed of the major powers, which had especially set their sights on Iranian crude oil. At the end of … Read more
When Frank Lloyd Wright’s triumphant tour of Europe stopped in Zurich in 1952
From the 2nd of February to the 9th of March 1952, the travelling exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright – Sixty Years of Living Architecture” made a guest appearance at the Zurich Kunsthaus. The reportage by Comet Photo AG (Zurich) immortalises in eighteen shots the obvious joy … Read more
Open data in ETH Library’s Image Archive
ETH Library’s Image Archive is opening its image database! 250,000 digitised images are now available for free download.