Maybe not quite in the same league and arguably of more local interest. But the ETH in Zurich makes a library of 100'000s of pictures, graphics, historical artifacts, architecture and photography publicly available.
[1] Disclaimer: I didn't check them all, for the ones I one was involved with, the archive of historical buildings in Zurich that's definitely the case.
All[1] of it in hi-res as TIFS:
https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/en/home_en/
[1] Disclaimer: I didn't check them all, for the ones I one was involved with, the archive of historical buildings in Zurich that's definitely the case.