The Herzog Collection at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich uniquely documents the growth and development of modern Switzerland. The valuable, mostly rare photographs span a century, tracing back to their origins and showing step by step how the present is shaped. The selection of photographs in this volume thus becomes a Swiss mirror, reflecting a multifaceted, always surprising, sometimes nostalgic, and often humorous small universe where the private and the public are in dialogue. These photographs make visible the path that the country and its society have taken in their first century, from the founding of the federal state to Switzerland on the threshold of Europe.