Swiss Collection

Poster for Locarno on the Swiss Riviera. The town is located on the northern tip of Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore) in the Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona at the foot of the Alps 1944

Modiano cigarettes
A Swiss poster for Modiano cigarettes.Date: 1935

Liberty character dolls in various costumes, all looking very cute. 20th century

Old bakery in St Gallen, Switzerland
View of the decorated exterior of an old bakery in the Spiesergasse (Spisergasse), St Gallen, Switzerland. Date: early 21st century

Advertisement for Maloja Palace Hotel, Engadine, Switzerland
Advertisement for the Maloja Palace Hotel, Engadine, Switzerland, showing a skier flying through the air. circa 1930s

Label design for Absinthe Suisse, an alcoholic drink made from a variety of plants, including wormwood (artemesia absinthium). circa late 19th century

Poster design for Societe Chimique perfumes
Portuguese (or Brazilian) poster design for Societe Chimique perfumes, launching a new perfume called Rodo, marketed from the Rhone area of France, with factories in France and Switzerland

Poster, Clean and Fit and Happy Too! Showing people in different countries attending to personal hygiene. Issued by the (British) Health and Cleanliness Council. 1939

Old timber-framed buildings, St Gallen, Switzerland
View of some old, timber-framed buildings with a restaurant on the ground floor in the old part of St Gallen, Switzerland. Date: early 21st century

Cooks Conducted Tours, Paris and Switzerland
Cover illustration of Cooks Conducted Tours, Paris and Switzerland, depicting three scenes -- the River Seine in Paris, an alpine mountain scene, and a lake scene with a chateau by the waters edge

Holidays in Switzerland, with Cooks and Dean & Dawson
Cover illustration for Holidays in Switzerland, with Cooks and Dean & Dawson, showing an Alpine scene with a young girl in a field of flowers beside a Swiss chalet

Advertisement for Bitter Le Coq, a Swiss liqueur, showing a stylised cockerel in red, white and blue colours against a black background. circa 1930s

Winter Sports in Switzerland, with Thomas Cook
Cover illustration for Sunshine and Snow. Winter Sports in Switzerland, synopsis of arrangements made by Thomas Cook and Son, Ludgate Circus, London

Advertisement for Faco floor wax for linoleum and parquet, marketed by Forster-Altorfer & Co of Zurich, Switzerland. early 20th century

Old style bay on a building in St Gallen, Switzerland
View of an old style bay on a building in the Spiesergasse (Spisergasse), St Gallen, Switzerland. Date: early 21st century

Captain Rostron watch inside cover
The inside cover of an 18 carat gold Tiffany watch presented to Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia, as a token of gratitude from three of the survivors rescued by the Carpathia on 15 April 1912

Advertisement for Caffe Tostato Moccar (roasted mocha), marketed by Romeo Besomi, Tesserete, Switzerland

Children at F D Roosevelt School, Swiss Cottage
Children at a table at F D Roosevelt School in Swiss Cottage, north west London. They are drinking their mid-morning bottles of milk. Date: 1963

Poster by Burkhard Mangold
Poster by the Swiss artist, Burkhard Mangold: Der Wolf zieht um. Probably a comment on German expansionism. Date: 1911

Poster advertising the alpine railway
Poster for PLM advertising the alpine railway between Grenoble and Nice

Italian timetable for the Gotthard railway
Timetable for the Gotthard railway, showing services between Italy and Switzerland, including Lakes Como, Lugano and Maggiore. Date: 1904

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

German Watchmakers
A man and a woman, watchmakers or clockmakers, Black Forest, Germany. Date: 1930s

Swiss Holiday Camp
Children at a summer camp in Switzerland. Two boys play string instruments while others do the washing up with mops and buckets. Date: early 1930s

Klausen Motor Racing
A poster for the Motor Racing events at Klausen, Switzerland on 22nd and 23rd August 1925 for Cars and motorcycles Date: 1925

Architectural details, old part of St Gallen, Switzerland
Architectural details in the old part of St Gallen, Switzerland, including a turret room that juts out from the corner of a building. Date: early 21st century

Label design for tinned beans, marketed by Lenzbourg of Lyons. With heating instructions, and an illustration of beans with a turnip, a tomato and a bunch of carrots. 20th century

Wrapper design for Tarpin luxury chocolate
Wrapper design for luxury chocolate from Tarpin & Compagnie of Grenoble, Switzerland. 20th century

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

Label design for Swiss Gruyere Cheese, showing a Swiss farmer ploughing a field with two oxen, with mountains in the background. 20th century

Poster advertising a Sports Festival in Basel, Switzerland
Poster advertising a sports or gymnastics festival in Basel, Switzerland, on 26 and 27 June 1920. An idealised gymnast stands with his arms outstretched. Date: 1920

European Grand Prix
A poster for the Grand Prix D Europe to be held at Bern on 3/4th July 1948 Date: 1948

Advertisement for golfing at Ouchy, Lausanne, Switzerland
Advertisement for golfing at the resort of Ouchy, near Lausanne, Switzerland. Showing a golfer hitting a ball towards the 18th hole. circa 1930s

Swiss Grand Prix 1934

Label design for Blan Blan soft cheese
Label design for Blan Blan soft white cheese, 55 per cent fat. Showing a teddy bear walking along an alpine path. 20th century

Advertisement for Idolice Confectionery, for tennis parties, picnics, at homes, etc. Showing a man offering a plate containing chocolate swiss roll to a woman in a deckchair. 20th century

Label design for Edelhofer Silbertaler wine, a full-bodied mature wine from the Edelhof-Kellerei (wine cellars) of Trient (either Trient in Switzerland, or Trento in Italy)

Advertisement for Villars Palace Hotel, Switzerland, showing a man playing golf. 20th century

Poster design for Zermatt, Switzerland, with the Matterhorn rising in the distance. 1908

Poster design for Seilers Hotel, Mont Cervin, Zermatt, Switzerland. Showing a man and a woman resting on a mountain trip. 20th century

Poster celebrating the Gotthard Railway
Poster celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Gotthard Railway, the splendid Swiss road to the sunny south. Date: circa 1957

Poster design for Seiden Grieder, Zurich
Poster design for Seiden Grieder, Paradeplatz, Zurich, Switzerland, a shop selling silk and other novelty items. Featuring a Japanese man holding up a piece of green silk. 20th century

Poster design for St Moritz and Engadine
Poster design for St Moritz, Switzerland, and the 6000 foot high Engadine mountain, showing a skier flying gracefully through the air above a snowy landscape. 20th century

Poster design for Wengen, Switzerland
Poster design for Wengen, in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, showing a woman in a red costume on a snowy ski slope. 20th century

Poster design for Gstaad, Switzerland, showing a couple in a ski lift with the snowy mountains ahead of them. 20th century

Sainte-Croix et les Rasses
Tourism poster for Sainte-Croix et les Rasses in the Jura region of Switzerland at an altitude of 3960 feet, popular with winter sports enthusiasts like the skiing lady pictured. 1922

Poster advertising Pontresina in Switzerland
Poster advertising Pontresina, an alpine village in the Engadin region of Switzerland, not far from St Moritz

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

Poster advertising a masked ball during a national fair in Switzerland, from 2 to 4 March 1936. Date: 1936

Cuckoo Clock Maker
Two little boys help an old clockmaker, perhaps their grandfather, to make a cuckoo clock in the Black Forest, Germany. Date: 1930s

QUEEN OF BERNESE ALPS
This lovely Swiss girl, in traditional costume, crowned Queen of the Bernese Alps. Date: early 1930s

Swiss Steamship
The steamship Valais on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Date: early 1930s

Large Swiss Family
A Swiss family, mother, father and 9 of their 28 children. Date: 1930s

Snowy Swiss Village
A picture postcard Swiss village, with a pretty church, covered in snow, near Berne, Switzerland. Date: 1930s

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