Photographs of the stateless and travellers

This is a collection of 221 police photographs of stateless persons and travellers taken by Carl Durheim in a city prison in Bern, commissioned as part of a campaign to document and naturalise stateless persons in Switzerland. Women are well represented in the collection, and brief notes that record their age and other details such as parents’ names and place of origin. The sample image (no. 9) from the collection shows 59-year-old Maria Magdalena Avondo, originally from Sardinia.