Recently, we have digitized several small, but interesting archival fonds from the following industries:

Strikes, labour relations

Archives of the support committee for the unemployed in the Basel silk ribbon industry and textile industry (SWA HS 83)

Bank

Company archives Veillard: Gustav Veillard & Cie. AG, bank, money change and security firm (SWA HS 121)

Company archives Banque Suisse et Française (SWA HS 146)

Archives of the bank section of the Basler Handels- und Industrievereins (SWA HS 153)

Commerce and trade

Collection of several documents relating to economic history, created by Ulrich Reich-Langhans (SWA HS 1)

Association archives of the Basel retail traders (SWA HS 51)

Association archives interest group of Swiss wholesale traders (SWA HS 61)

Crafts

Archives of the brotherhood of Basel shoemakers (SWA HS 147)

Archives of the association of the blacksmiths and cartwrights of Basel and the Basel region (SWA HS 157)

Textile industry

Archives of the support committee for the unemployed in the Basel silk ribbon industry and textile industry (SWA HS 83)

Company archives of Gerber joint stock association (SWA HS 161)

As part of the Basel University Library's ink corrosion project, holdings from the SWA are also being digitized and processed. As the first results of this project, 7800 files with business letters from the company archives Forcart-Weis & Söhne (Württembergerhof) (SWA HS 258 U) (textile industry) are now live.

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Overview of all digitised archival holdings > Digitised holdings

All SWA holdings on e-manuscripta

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