Figure 1.--Here we have a photograph taken in Milan during the early 1900s. The picture shows a boy moving with his family. Poor families moved often, because they changed the place where were working, or the rental contract expired. Then they put all their furniture, pottery and linen on a wagon and moved into new house. The moving was usually in autumn, often in November, because contracts expired traditionally on November 11th, in the festivity of St. Martin. Even today in Northern Italy dialects "fare San Martino" (to make St. Martin) means to move. The photohraph here confirms the traditional date. Indeed the boy is wearing a wool jacket.

We have not yet pursued the topic of homes, but after working with images for some time now we have concluded that images showing the grounds, outside of the home, and inside of the home can provide us more valuable information. This can provide information such as demographic and social class factors and how they related to fashion. Many imges archived on are studio portraits with no information about the home environment. But in the 20th century we have large numbers of snapshots. We will eventually link some of those imges here, but this will take some time to accomplish. Our intention is to do this both chronlogically and demoraphically.

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