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How the modern day came into being
The photographs in the Herzog Collection, currently on display in the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, vividly document the emergence of modernday Switzerland. The collection portrays the country’s development from an agricultural economy into an industrialised nation between 1840 and the present era. The images depict not only public life but also the private lives of individuals and span more than a century.
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Ploughing with horses and cattle…
…and with a traction engine. Both pictures from circa 1915.
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The Sulzer foundry in Winterthur, 1919
Pack horses on the Faulhorn, 1900 – 1910
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The carpentry workshop of the C. F. Bally shoe factory in Schönenwerd, circa 1900
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