Image attributions & credits

We use real photographs wherever we can. Most come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences — with thanks to the photographers who shared them. Each image below is credited to its author with a link to the original and its licence. Where a CC BY-SA photo has been colour-adjusted/resized, the same share-alike licence carries over.

The Cabot Creamery visitor center in Vermont, a farmer-owned dairy cooperative, with its red gabled roof and signage
by David Moore / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5 · adjusted
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An aerial view of the Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery plant in Wisconsin, a dairy farmers' cooperative
by Wikideas1 / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · adjusted
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The brick building of the historic Rush City Creamery Cooperative in Rush City, Minnesota
by Myotus / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · adjusted
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The Te Kaha Co-op Dairy Factory in New Zealand in an archival black-and-white photograph
by Archives New Zealand / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · adjusted
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Ripe red cranberries growing on the vine at a bog run by Ocean Spray, a grower-owned agricultural marketing cooperative
by Lance Cheung / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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The historic stone offices of the Aspatria Agricultural Co-operative Society in Cumbria, England
by Unknown author / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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A branch building of the Tottori Chuo Agricultural Cooperative (JA) in Japan
by Ebiebi2 / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · adjusted
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The premises of the Bugisu Cooperative Union, a coffee farmers' cooperative in eastern Uganda
by Erinamukuta / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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A row of tall concrete grain silos at a Premier Cooperative grain elevator on the American plains
by Corey Coyle / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · adjusted
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A Farmers Cooperative grain elevator and storage bins in Dike, Iowa
by Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · adjusted
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The Agtegra co-op grain elevator towering over Huron, South Dakota
by Tony Webster / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · adjusted
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A historic wooden Saskatchewan Cooperative grain elevator on the Canadian prairie
by Jet Lowe / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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A Raiffeisenbank branch in Schnaittach, Germany, part of the original cooperative banking movement
by Florian Hurlbrink / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The facade of a Taiwan Cooperative Bank branch in Taipei
by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · adjusted
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A Bank Spoldzielczy (cooperative bank) branch sharing a building with the post office in Gogolin, Poland
by Kamil Czaiński / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The headquarters building of the Jharkhand State Cooperative Bank in India
by Pinakpani / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · adjusted
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A modern Windsor Family Credit Union branch in Kingsville, Ontario, Canada
by Chris Woodrich / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The corner building of the Tulane Loyola Credit Union in the Riverbend neighborhood of New Orleans
by Infrogmation / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The Belgian Credit Union office building in Brussels
by Nenea hartia / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The Portaferry Credit Union building in County Down, Northern Ireland
by Eric Jones / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · adjusted
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A blue COOP consumer cooperative supermarket beside a railway station in Hirosaki, Japan
by 掬茶 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The former Co-operative Society central store, a long parade of shops in an English town
by Christine Johnstone / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · adjusted
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A branch of Konsum Leipzig eG, a German consumer cooperative, on Trinitatisplatz
by August Geyler / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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A small rural co-operative store of the S-group near Tampere, Finland, photographed in 1987
by sludgegulper / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · adjusted
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The storefront of Outpost Natural Foods Co-op, a member-owned grocery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
by Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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A Co-operative Food convenience store in the village of Fordham, England
by Keith Edkins / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · adjusted
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Buffalo Mountain Co-op and Cafe, a food cooperative on Main Street in Hardwick, Vermont
by Artaxerxes / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · adjusted
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Fresh plums in a display bin at a member-owned food cooperative grocery
by Rusty Clark / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · adjusted
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The Seward Park Housing Cooperative towers on Manhattan's Lower East Side, seen across the East River
by DimiTalen / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · adjusted
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The timber-framed rear facade of La Borda, a resident-led housing cooperative in Barcelona
by VELKEJ LED / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The Moeckernkiez cooperative housing complex in Berlin-Kreuzberg, built by a member-owned Genossenschaft
by BeKaBerlin / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The administration building of the Sloneczny Stok housing cooperative in Bialystok, Poland
by Henryk Borawski / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · adjusted
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The central headquarters of the Mondragon Corporation, the world's largest worker cooperative, in the Basque Country of Spain
by Zarateman / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · adjusted
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The historic workers' cooperative housing at Crespi d'Adda, a model industrial village in Italy
by Ian Spackman / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 uk · adjusted
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The brick buildings of the United Workers Cooperatives in the Bronx, New York
by ALT55-VictorM / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · adjusted
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The Hub Bike Co-op, a worker-owned bicycle shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota
by edkohler / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · adjusted
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The headquarters of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Arlington, Virginia
by ajay_suresh / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · adjusted
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Line crews working on power lines for the East Kentucky Power Cooperative, a rural electric cooperative
by USDAgov / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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Rural electric cooperative power lines and poles carrying electricity through the Kentucky countryside
by USDAgov / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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A lineman and bucket truck servicing rural electric cooperative distribution lines in eastern Kentucky
by USDAgov / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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An 1865 photograph of members of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founders of the modern cooperative movement
by Unknown author / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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The Rochdale Pioneers Museum on Toad Lane in Rochdale, England, the birthplace of the cooperative movement
by Chemical Engineer / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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Toad Lane in Rochdale, Lancashire, where the Rochdale Pioneers opened their first cooperative store in 1844
by The Co-op Group / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · adjusted
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The restored interior of the original Rochdale Pioneers cooperative shop
by Chemical Engineer / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The Ulladulla fishermen's cooperative on the harbour in New South Wales, Australia
by Nick-D / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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Shrimp boats of the Dorado Fishing Cooperative moored in Puerto Rico
by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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The first wholesale market building at Choshi Fishing Port, run by a Japanese fisheries cooperative
by Suikotei / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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A shrimp fleet belonging to a Black-owned fishing cooperative off Hilton Head, South Carolina, in the 1970s
by Paul Conklin / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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The Amul dairy cooperative processing plant at Anand, Gujarat, at dusk — tall stainless-steel pasteurised-milk silos beside the concrete processing building, with milk tanker trucks lined up at the loading bay
by Notnarayan / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · adjusted
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A village IFFCO fertiliser-cooperative sales point in rural India — a bright-yellow primary agricultural cooperative society building painted with IFFCO branding and crop-input slogans in Hindi, two women in saris walking past on the dirt forecourt
by Iffco pr / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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An Indian farmer broadcasts IFFCO cooperative fertiliser by hand across a lush green paddy field, scattering white granules from a yellow IFFCO co-op sack
by Ankur.a / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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A booth for the Tuban Blessed Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative from Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, at a Philippine crafts fair — a member sits behind a display of the cooperative's handwoven buri-palm handbags and purses
by Valenzuela400 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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