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  • Carl Durheim’s police photographs of stateless persons

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Economy and finance

    In 1852 and 1853 Carl Durheim, a pioneering photographer from Bern, was commissioned by the Confederation to photograph hundreds of stateless persons and travellers who had been...

    Last updated: December 15, 2014

    • HTML
    • glam
    • immigration
    • immigration-police
    • migration
    • openglam
    • police
    • poverty