Collections
The archive houses 266 collections from women's organisations throughout Switzerland and 229 private estates as well as an extensive press documentation. The documentation comprises two parts: the biographical notes and the thematic notes.
The Gosteli Archive collects materials on all themes. Whether women campaigned for political rights, for domestic work, against violence, in specific occupational fields or for any social issue they considered important is equally relevant and interesting to us. In addition to written documents, the archive preserves audiovisual materials such as photographs, posters, slides, video cassettes and audio recordings. We also take on digitally created archive materials and are currently working on setting up a digital long-term archive.
The archive can be searched via the online catalogue:
Newly included materials
The following holdings were recently catalogued, conserved and recorded in the archive:
- Archive Konsumentinnenforum der deutschen Schweiz und des Kantons Tessin
- Archive Lotte Ravicini-Tschumi
- Margaret Pope estate
- Katharina von Arx estate
- Archive Trachtenverein Zweisimmen
- Esther Baezner-Vogel estate
- Marga Bührig estate
- Poster collection (digitised)
- Textile collection
- Various photo collections (Pflegerinnenschule mit Frauenspital Zürich; Verband Soldatenwohl/Volksdienst; Elisabeth Feller estate; separate photo collection)
- Regina Käser-Häusler estate
- Erika Rudin-Jagher estate
- Archive Schriftwechsel
- Archive Sylvia Rüdin-Bader
- Gertrud Woker estate
- Archive Madeleine Joye-Thévoz
Our cataloguing projects were supported financially by:
Christoph Geiser Foundation, descendants of Hedy Hofstetter, Memoriav, Ruth und Arthur Scherbarth Foundation, Swiss Reformation Foundation