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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.2121.4
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Industrial Problems, Coöperation: Italy. Turin. Alleanza Cooperativa: Coöperative Societies, Italy: Alleanza Co-operativa, Torino
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1903
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Piemonte, Torino (Turin)
Culture
European?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/11649

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 6.2 x 14.5 cm (2 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Alleanza Co-operativa, Torino. The 2 largest cooperative societies amalgamated in 1899, although they keep their actual membership still distinct. This united Society owns 20 branch stores in common, besides chemists shops, bakeries, wine cellars, a circulating library, a theatre and a restaurant. In its Babies Dispensary it provides sterilized milk at cost to children of every class, whether of members or otherwise, as well as instruction and assistance to the mothers in the upbringing of infants. This battle with infant mortality is stated to have brought down the death rate to 20 per 1000 of children attending the Society's Dispensary as against 180 per 1000 in the town generally. The Society also maintains a regular staff of doctors, engaged to attend members free of cost.

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
3.2002.2121.4
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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