Raw and Processed Data of Printed Markets - The Basel Avisblatt (1729-1845)

Switzerland's first advertising journal – the so-called Avisblatt – was published in Basel. It is a typical example of a new market form emerging in 18th century Europe, yet it is also exceptional since all issues from 1729 to 1844/45 are preserved. In the SNF funded research project “Märkte auf Papier” at the University of Basel (PI: Prof. Dr. Susanna Burghartz), this serial source has been digitized and used to investigate economic, social and societal transformations of the early capitalist period in Basel. A database of all adverts and announcements was created, totalling 932’000 records and providing different sorts of metadata for each advert. The dataset is made avaiable combined with analytical tools.

• first official, public release
• raw (OCR'd) data, collections (data and meta data) and aggregated tables
• read and process conveniently with the avisblatt R package