Archive / Pictorial documents
120 pictorial documents about immigration and internal migration in Switzerland
A 27: Photo/ 9 x 9 cm/ portrait/ colour/ L. with mother
I left home when I was sixteen and a half. I took a special basket with a lock. Not only I, but also my mother at home, had a key to this lock, so I could send my washing home to her.
Lino A., born 1920, from Stabio in Tessin, Switzerland