Online-Portal People and Institutions

The portal People and Institutions contains information on about 12,000 people and about 800 institutions from the agricultural and food sector. The entries are linked to each other as well as to additional text and film material outside the portal. This not only makes connections between institutions and individuals visible, but also reveals fields of activity and professional-family networks. In other words, the entries in the portal lead to people and institutions, but at the same time point far beyond them.

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Online-Portal on filmmaking in rural Europe

In order to secure, systematise and publish the information on agrarian filmmaking contained in many archive holdings, the ARH, together with partner institutions at the European level, operates a database that contains both the title and metadata on the agrarian film productions known to date. The database of the ARH and the European Rural History Film Association (ERHFA) lists several thousand films including metadata from Europe and the USA. Around 1,100 of these films have been digitised and are accessible online via the ARH-ERHFA-Online-Portal.

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European Rural History Film Association (ERHFA)

Online-Portal Image sources for animal work

Working animals played an important role from the 18th to the mid-20th century both in the city and in the countryside, as can be seen not least from numerous pictorial sources. A selection of the images recorded and described in the ARH's internal database "Working Animals" is publicly accessible via the online-portal. The image sources are grouped according to topics and the institutions that have the images and make them available to the public via the ARH portal.

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Online-Portal Collections

The online-portal provides information on the content, scope and locations of around 250 collections from the agricultural and food sector. The collections indexed by the ARH are stored in
a) in the Swiss Federal Archives, in cantonal state archives or in special archives
b) from the file creators
c) from ARH (temporary)

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Archive collections and databases to be consulted at the ARH

ARH internal databases and archive holdings can also be consulted on site, at Villettemattstr. 7 in Bern, by appointment.

Database Periodicals: The ARH operates a database of periodicals from the agricultural and food sector. It lists newspapers, journals, bulletins, calendars, etc. from the agricultural and food sector in Switzerland that have been published since the second half of the 18th century and supplements them with contextual information. The ARH-internal database, which can be consulted in the ARH, contains information on about 650 titles. Issues of more than 130 titles are physically available in the ARH.

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Database institutions: The ARH operates a database on institutions that were active in the agricultural and food sector from the 19th to the 21st century. It lists associations, societies and authorities, including their predecessors, which were active at the international, national, regional or local level, and supplements them with contextual information. The ARH's internal database currently contains information on around 3,000 institutions; it can be consulted at the ARH for research purposes. For most of the institutions listed in the database, documents such as statutes, annual reports, anniversary publications or newspaper articles can also be consulted at the ARH.