(1869 – 1936)
A doctor in Turin and keen mountaineer, he collected forty thousand pictures between the end of the 1800’s and the early Nineteen Thirties. He was a leading member of the Italian Alpine Club and the “Gruppo Italiano Scrittori di Montagna” (Italian Group of Mountain Writers).
(1922 – 1998)
An employee of ENEL*, he was a keen photographer who enjoyed experimenting with new techniques. Protagonist of various exhibitions in Biella and in Italy, his photographs were often displayed together with the work of contemporary visual artists.
(1879 – 1964)
Born in the Aosta Valley where he later worked, he was an amateur photographer and mountaineer, almost unknown to the press of the time. He was co-founder of CAI UGET of Turin. Gallino wrote an impressive record of all his climbs, illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs which provide important documentation of the history of mountaineering of that time.
(1870 – 1945)
A textile industrialist, he was also an explorer and mountaineer, friend and expedition companion of Vittorio Sella to the Caucasus (1896). In his youth, like two other photographers of the Biellese area Luigi Borsetti and Antonio Tosso, he worked at the Bellia Knitwear factory in Pettinengo and at the Boglietti Knitwear factory in Biella.
(1861 – 1935)
Son of Giacomo Vincenzo (1833-1907) and Lidia Mongenet. His father was an entrepreneur and deputy in the sub-alpine parliament and later in the Italian parliament. Industrialist, photographer, mountaineer and writer, he was regarded as one of the most famous exponents of Italian pictorialist photography.
(1883 – 1978)
Son of Ottone, Lieutenant General Commander of the IX Army Corps and Senator of the Realm from 1900, and Adele Camerana, sister of the magistrate and poet Giovanni. He graduated in engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin in 1906.
(1901 – 1990)
Son of Gaudenzio (1860-1934) (second branch) and Gertrude Boswell (1867-1956), he graduated with honours in Jurisprudence at the University of Turin in 1933, discussing a thesis on the Statutes of Mosso. An expert on the history of the Biellese and in particular of Oropa, in 1935 he worked with his cousin Emanuele Sella on the treatise about the Sanctuary.
(1900 – 1979)
Engineer Giovanni Bertoglio (1900-1979) was publisher of the “Monthly Magazine” of the CAI (Italian Alpine Club) from 1953 to 1976. Bertoglio was also chairman of the National Library of the CAI.
(1926 – 1996)
Biellese journalist Pietro Minoli (1926-1996) contributed to the editions of the local newspapers “Eco di Biella” and to the city news pages of “La Stampa”, he was a local news reporter for the national paper “Il Corriere della Sera” from 1954.
(1889-1933)
Born in Turin he died on Easter Day 1933, falling into a crevasse of the Vedret da Morterasch, in the Bernina range.
