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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The village cheese cooperative at Mouthe in the Doubs — a white farmhouse-style building with a red tiled roof, 'COOPERATIVE DE FROMAGERIE' spelled across its gable in red lettering, with the commune's stone war memorial standing on the corner in front of it
by Ji-Elle / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · adjusted
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The Société Coopérative Agricole de Céréales grain cooperative at Apt in the Vaucluse, an ochre-rendered warehouse with an Art Deco wheat-sheaf motif on the gable, pallets of animal-feed and fertiliser sacks stacked on the forecourt beside its 'Libre Service Agricole' farm store
by vpagnouf / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · adjusted
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The historic 1937 grain silo of the Coopérative de Vente des Associations Agricoles de Loir-et-Cher at Onzain, its long warehouse facade carrying the cooperative's name in raised concrete relief lettering beneath a tall dated elevator tower
by Croquant / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · adjusted
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A long grain-storage warehouse of the Vivadour agricultural cooperative beside a road junction at Auterive in the Gers, its pale metal cladding carrying the Vivadour logo and a galvanised grain-elevator tower rising at one end
by Fabricio Cardenas (Culex) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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An aerial view of Co-operative House on Haile Selassie Avenue, Nairobi — the headquarters tower of the Co-operative Bank of Kenya, the bank majority-owned by Kenya's cooperative movement — its dark glass curtain wall and pale stone flank rising above the city's railway yards, matatu stage and rooftops
by Ruslik0 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The white gabled headquarters building of KWV at Paarl in the Western Cape — KWV was formed in 1918 as the Koöperatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging, a co-operative of South African wine growers — seen down a paved path between two pergolas of trained vines and beds of white roses, a sculpted pediment above its carved wooden doors
by Tjeerd Wiersma / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · adjusted
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Inside KWV's Cathedral Cellar in South Africa, the maturation hall of a business founded in 1918 as a co-operative of the country's wine growers — a long barrel-vaulted nave lined both sides with towering oak foudres on yellow-railed gantries, chandeliers hanging the length of the aisle towards an arched window
by South African Tourism / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · adjusted
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A bronze plaque on the whitewashed gatepost at KWV in Paarl, South Africa, reading 'Co-operative Winegrowers Association of South Africa, Limited — registered in terms of the Co-operative Societies Act, 1939', with the letters KWV mounted in metal below it against a deep blue sky
by Tjeerd Wiersma / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · adjusted
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A woman's hands at the Marjana women's cooperative in Morocco cracking argan nuts open with a smooth round stone against a flat anvil stone, the shelled kernels heaped on a cloth beside a woven palm basket
by Werner100359 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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Baskets of harvested argan nuts at the Marjana women's cooperative in Morocco — a pierced metal bowl of sorted kernels resting on a woven palm pannier heaped with whole dried fruit, on a red and gold rug
by Werner100359 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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Members of the Amahoro women's cooperative in rural Rwanda haul a long net through a pond at the edge of a banana plantation, one woman waist-deep at the far bank and children watching from the grass
by Evi04041989 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The cooperative house at Gbedu village in Oyo State, Nigeria — a weathered single-storey building with a rusting pantile roof, its signboard reading 'GBEDU Cooperative Cocoa Sale Society Ltd., registered in 1937 in Nigeria', seen through the branches of a young tree
by OnaaraTODAYnews / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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The Unilorin Staff Multi-Purpose Co-operative Union building at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, at dusk — a pale block with a pillared porch and metal railings, the cooperative's name and two clasped-hands emblems lettered across the gable
by Abdurrazaq A.F.O / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · adjusted
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A dairy farmer in Chitwan District, Nepal, tips the evening milking from an aluminium pail into churns for collection by his local dairy cooperative, standing on the veranda of his house beside a shuttered window
by ILRI / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · adjusted
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Cooperative members in matching white shirts and red caps carry a wide banner through Dhaka for Bangladesh's 45th National Cooperative Day in November 2016, the Bengali lettering across it reading 'Cooperative Rally'
by Press Information Department, Government of Bangladesh / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · adjusted
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The long tiled-roof premises of Cooperativa Mista Agro-Pecuária Witmarsum at Colônia Witmarsum in Paraná, southern Brazil — the cooperative's name lettered along the brick facade above its member supermarket and produce market, with grain silos and elevator towers rising behind the roofline
by SamirNosteb / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · adjusted
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The gable of the COOAPIT beekeepers' cooperative at Tucano in Bahia, Brazil, painted with a yellow honeycomb pattern and lettered 'Cooperativa de Apicultores Tucano-BA, fundada em 05/09/2004', against a bright sky
by Ajmcbarreto / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · adjusted
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