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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.2084.2
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Industrial Problems, Coöperation: Austria. Vienna. Arbeiterkonsumverein: Coöperative Societies, Austria: Arbeiter Consumverein, Vienna
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1903
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna
Culture
Austrian?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/11302

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 14 x 10.2 cm (5 1/2 x 4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Arbeiter Consumverein, Vienna. This Society was the outcome of a lecture on the Rochdale Pioneers, attended in 1864 by some Viennese weavers. In 1865, 17 of them formed a society and started with the purchase of 2 sacks of flour, retailed among their number. In 10 years membership and trade increased 300% in each case. Now the Society provides for 34000 workingmen's families, owns its buildings and 2 dozen distributive branch stores. It has 2 good reserve funds. Further working capital is supplied by its saving department. Employes work 9 hours a day. They receive a fixed share in the profits towards providing them with old age pensions. The productive departments of the Society are coffee, chicory, and fig roasting works, and a bakery.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
3.2002.2084.2
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

  • The Social Museum Collection

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