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Women’s School (Soziale Frauenschule) 1 – but it also presents images of social<br />
work practice. Such images are very rare, and so the album would be important<br />
for this reason alone. But even this does not expla<strong>in</strong> the album’s special value<br />
and its special attraction.<br />
This can be said: The photo album tells the history of social work or,<br />
more precisely, of social women’s work <strong>in</strong> its beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>gs around 1900 when the<br />
modern social work profession was born as a profession for women. One must<br />
say that the profession was created and developed by women <strong>in</strong> association<br />
with the women‘s movement. That is to say, it developed <strong>in</strong> the context of each<br />
woman’s own emancipation and of women’s emancipation <strong>in</strong> general, which<br />
was an <strong>in</strong>ternational development.<br />
It is not only the fact of tell<strong>in</strong>g this excit<strong>in</strong>g history that makes the<br />
album an <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g and stimulat<strong>in</strong>g source. It is the album’s special way of<br />
communicat<strong>in</strong>g this history that makes it such a precious source for research<br />
and education. I will try to give an impression of both aspects.<br />
The rather large album (it measures 40 cm by 30 cm) does not impress<br />
by its physical appearance. It is of simple design, be<strong>in</strong>g covered only by coloured<br />
paper. It conta<strong>in</strong>s just eighteen sheets with forty pictures all together. Some of<br />
them are professional photos but mostly they are snapshots. The sizes of the<br />
photos vary. The earliest photos were taken before 1900, the last ones around<br />
1929.<br />
1<br />
The forerunner of the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences was the Soziale Frauenschule – <strong>Social</strong><br />
Women’s School – with two-year tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g courses for social work. It was founded by Alice Salomon <strong>in</strong> 1908. The<br />
Alice Salomon University celebrated its 100th anniversary <strong>in</strong> October 2008. Predecessors of the Soziale Frauenschule<br />
were the one-year tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g courses for social work which started <strong>in</strong> Berl<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> 1899. Almost at the same time, <strong>in</strong><br />
1898, the Summer School of Philanthropy started <strong>in</strong> New York, the later New York School of <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Work</strong> (s<strong>in</strong>ce<br />
1941: Columbia University School of <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Work</strong>.) and <strong>in</strong> 1899 the first school <strong>in</strong> the Netherlands, School voor<br />
Maatschappelijk Werk, (today Dome<strong>in</strong> Maatschappij en Recht / School of <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Work</strong> and Law at the Hogeschool<br />
van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences). Cf. Alice Salomon, Education for <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Work</strong>: A Sociological Interpretation<br />
Based on an International Survey (Zürich: Verlag für Recht und Gesellschaft, 1937), 191-193, 238-239,<br />
with reference to the history of the Alice Salomon School see Adriane Feustel and Gerd Koch, ed., 100 Jahre Soziales<br />
Lehren und Lernen: Von der Sozialen Frauenschule zur Alice Salomon Hochschule Berl<strong>in</strong> (Berl<strong>in</strong>: Schibri-Verlag,<br />
2008) [with an Introduction <strong>in</strong> English].<br />
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