Name of Object:

The Committee of Tunis for Milan Exhibition 1906

Name in original language:

Comitato di Tunisi per l'Esposizione di Milano 1906

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

Italian Geographical Society (SGI)

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Holding Institution (original language):

Società Geografica Italiana (SGI)

Date of Object:

1906

Description:

The Italian community in Tunisia participated in the 1906 Milan international exhibition. The Committee in charge of organizing exhibition participation included Italian professionals and entrepreneurs who had migrated from Italy to Tunisia or who were children or grandchildren of immigrants, such as Alfredo Coen (owner of the furniture shop “Au Palais Arabe” and of a furniture factory), G. Di Vittorio and L. Rey (owners of constructions companies that built important public and private buildings, Di Vittorio, from Sicily, Rey, the child of an immigrant from Piedmont), Ugo Moreno (a trader, whose the family had migrated from Livorno in 1830) and Doctor Pietro Brignone (who ran a pharmacy in Tunis).

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

Comitato della Camera italiana di commercio ed arti, Gli italiani in Tunisia, Tunis, 1906, p. 5.

Citation of this web page:

Giulia Barrera "The Committee of Tunis for Milan Exhibition 1906" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;7;en

Prepared by: Giulia Barrera
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 007