Collected Item: “Occupancy Limits in Family-Owned Store in Small Town in Alife, Italy”
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Occupancy Limits in Family-Owned Store in Small Town in Alife, Italy
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Photograph My cousin Caterina Ginocchio took this photo and posted it on Facebook.
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“ingresso permesso ad un massimo di 1 persona per volta” – Translation “admission allowed to a maximum of 1 person at a time”
The image is of the front of the store that my family owns in a small town in Italy called Alife. Due to COVID-19, my family had to display signs which explain a change in the occupancy limit. It is interesting to see how the town has imposed occupancy restrictions that are similar to the restrictions in the United States of America. As described in the article “Professional Ethics for Archivists” this photo “provid[es] a baseline for measuring the present state of affairs” (Professional Ethics for Archivists, 22). This image was published to Facebook which has the ability to store more information than a brick-and-mortar location. This image responds to the needs and considerations of an ethical archival collection because it reflects the current social climate that business owners are experiencing across the world due to COVID-19.
The image is of the front of the store that my family owns in a small town in Italy called Alife. Due to COVID-19, my family had to display signs which explain a change in the occupancy limit. It is interesting to see how the town has imposed occupancy restrictions that are similar to the restrictions in the United States of America. As described in the article “Professional Ethics for Archivists” this photo “provid[es] a baseline for measuring the present state of affairs” (Professional Ethics for Archivists, 22). This image was published to Facebook which has the ability to store more information than a brick-and-mortar location. This image responds to the needs and considerations of an ethical archival collection because it reflects the current social climate that business owners are experiencing across the world due to COVID-19.
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#HST241, #CovidMiniCollection, #Suffolk, #occupancylimit, #familyownedbuisness, #Italy, #Alife
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Caterina Ginocchio
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2020-05-12