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Two boys with a bike, around 1925 Picture: Arthur Zeller

Cheesemakers with the tools of their trade Picture: Arthur Zeller

Self portrait, 1910 Picture: Arthur Zeller

The Seeberg alp with herds belonging to breeders Gerber and Iseli, 1926 Picture: Arthur Zeller

A cattle show in Lenk, around 1920 Picture: Arthur Zeller

Hans the bull owned by breeder Haueter, Zweisimmen, around 1925 Picture: Arthur Zeller

A cow with calf Picture: Arthur Zeller

Rear view: cows belonging to breeder Hans Siegenthaler, Unterfeld, Trub, around 1926 Picture: Arthur Zeller

A family with nine children, around 1925 Picture: Arthur Zeller

Two young women with small children in a pram, around 1910 Picture: Arthur Zeller

Children with a toy sheep, around 1925 Picture: Arthur Zeller

Two hunters with dead chamois, around 1920 Picture: Arthur Zeller

Breeding boar Picture: Arthur Zeller

Alpine pasture near the Jaunpass in canton Bern Picture: Arthur Zeller

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Arthur Zeller, cow breeder and wandering photographer.

Arthur Zeller (1881-1931) was a farmer and cow breeder but his true passion was photography. From 1900 to 1930 he crisscrossed Bern’s Simmental to record the lives and landscapes of the area. He left behind a collection of 6,000 glass-plate negatives, stored almost unprotected in a laundry. A unique archive that has finally been made public and can now be seen in the local musuem in Erlenbach and has been published in a new book. (Pictures: Limmatverlag).