Name of Object:

The stand of the Italian Community in Tunisia at the International Exhibition held in Turin in 1911

Location:

Livorno, Italy

Holding Institution:

State Archives of Livorno

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Holding Institution (original language):

Archivio di Stato di Livorno

Date of Object:

1911

Description:

The picture shows how, on the occasion of the 1911 international exhibition in Turin the Italian community in Tunisia chose to represent itself by blending elements taken from the Italian and from the Tunisian material culture.
One can read the sign E. & A. Coen, Tunisi, Susa, Sfax. Eugenio and Alfredo Coen were the owners of a furniture factory and of the imposing furniture shop, “Au Palais Arabe”, in downtown Tunis.

Type of Object

Photograph

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

ASLi, Archivio Moreno di Tunisi, b. 15

Citation of this web page:

Massimo Sanacore, Giulia Barrera "The stand of the Italian Community in Tunisia at the International Exhibition held in Turin in 1911" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;5;en

Prepared by: Massimo Sanacore, Giulia Barrera
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 005