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Black Sea and Caucasus, May 1911 : photograph album, 1911.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 338
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- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Laengsdorff, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Black Sea Region--Photographs.
- Ethnology.
- I︠A︡lta (Ukraine)--Photographs.
- I︠A︡lta (Ukraine).
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Photographs.
- Odesa (Ukraine).
- Tʻbilisi (Georgia)--Photographs.
- Tʻbilisi (Georgia).
- Black Sea Region.
- Genre:
- Photographs -- Twentieth century (dates CE).
- Photograph albums.
- Photographs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Provenance: Dorman McBirney estate.
- Purchased from Isador Kvanzel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v
- Place of Publication:
- 1911.
- Biography/History:
- Photographer Richard Laengsdorff's address was Westendplatz 34, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Summary:
- Photographs taken at Gagry, Tiflis, Yalta, Odessa, and other locations, with captions for photos 1-59 and a list of all 100 photos laid in. Photographs are of people in traditional dress, including one photograph of Caucasian Jews; of churches, mosques, bridges, rivers, the Transcaucasian railway, public buildings, monuments, vehicles, ships, and some industrial sites.
- Notes:
- Title and date from front cover; attribution from photographer's stamp on the list of photographs.
- Cited as:
- U. of Penn. Ms. Coll. 338
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