Documented knowledge.

The archive collects long-form, researched dossiers on Swiss tobacco - with primary sources, archive signatures and a bibliography. A complement to the Journal, for those who want to look things up.

Mural depicting Swiss tobacco cultivation - sowing, harvest, fermentation and manufacture

Available dossiers

Dossier I · 4 chapters

History of tobacco cultivation in Switzerland

From the botanist Konrad Gesner (1565) to the Huguenots and Bernese tobacco policy through to today's manufactory landscape - four chapters, five archives, more than 70 cited sources.

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Image collection

Image archive · continuously expanded

Heimat in pictures.

Photographs from cultivation, fermentation and manufacture. A growing collection - free to browse, with lightbox and keyboard navigation.

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Source texts and chapters of the dossier are kept in their original German for documentary accuracy.