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Photo, Print, Drawing Cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits of Russians from the George Kennan papers

About this Item

Title

  • Cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits of Russians from the George Kennan papers

Summary

  • Group 13255-1: portraits of Tsar Alexander II and members of the Imperial family. Group 13255-2: portraits of various ethnic groups, including Cossacks, particularly from the Transcaucasis region and Siberia. Group 13255-3: portraits of criminals and exiles, some probably given to Kennan during his 1885-1886 Siberian trip. Group 13255-4: images of famous Russians, including composers, writers, politicians, and military officers. Group 13255-5: miscellaneous portraits, including a formal portrait of Kennan taken in Tomsk; Kennan dressed in Russian convict clothing; Kennan and another man wearing robes from the Transcaucasis; various individuals Kennan met during his journey in Siberia; government officials; photographs of corpses laid out for burial; portrait of arctic explorer Dr. Bunge; portrait of Leo Tolstoy; peasants harvesting wheat on the steppes; a military officer in a uniform of a cossack regiment.

Names

  • Kennan, George, 1845-1924, collector

Created / Published

  • 1870-1890.

Headings

  • -  Alexander--II--Emperor of Russia,--1818-1881--Family
  • -  Kennan, George,--1845-1924
  • -  Russians--1870-1890
  • -  Cossacks--1870-1890
  • -  Exiles--Russia--1870-1890
  • -  Prisoners--Russia--1870-1890
  • -  Nobility--Russia--1870-1890
  • -  Authors--Russia--1870-1890
  • -  Composers--Russia--1870-1890
  • -  Government officials--Russia--1870-1890

Format Headings

  • Cabinet photographs--1870-1890.
  • Cartes de visite--1870-1890.
  • Ethnographic photographs--1870-1890.
  • Group portraits--1870-1890.
  • Photographic prints--1870-1890.
  • Photomechanical prints--1870-1890.
  • Portraits--1870-1890.

Genre

  • Photographic prints--1870-1890
  • Photomechanical prints--1870-1890
  • Cabinet photographs--1870-1890
  • Cartes de visite--1870-1890
  • Portraits--1870-1890
  • Group portraits--1870-1890
  • Ethnographic photographs--1870-1890

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Organized into five subject groups: Imperial family; Famous Russians; Ethnographic photographs; Convicts and exiles; Miscellaneous.
  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Handwritten inscriptions on some photographs, many in Russian.
  • -  Photographic processes represented include albumen, collodian printing-out-paper, and gelatin silver.
  • -  Additional photographers represented include Beier; C.H. Bergmasco (St. Petersburg); Black & Co. (Boston); Bogdanovich (Irkutsk); W. Carrick (St. Petersburg); Konstantin Aleksandrovich Chapiro; Dienass (Irkutsk); Eichenwald (Moscow); I.V. Erzhinskii (Tomsk); N.A. Ermolin; Fidlerman (Tobolsk); August Hoffman (Irkutsk); Ideal Photography Shop; Kartamyshev (Tomsk); Charles W. Lee (Norwalk, Ohio); Leitsinger (Archangel); Luvovich Levitsky (St. Petersburg); Matsaevich & Co. (Tomsk); P.A. Mieskii (Irkutsk); N.P. Prokopév; Sass (Moscow); P. Sauvanaud (Paris); Shtein (Chita); Venzenberg & Co. (St. Petersburg).
  • -  The photographs have been digitized and are available online, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ppoc
  • -  Forms part of the George Kennan Papers.
  • -  Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973 (DLC/PP-1973:080).

Medium

  • 133 photographic prints ; 18 x 11 cm. or smaller.
  • 22 photomechanical prints ; 17 x 11 cm. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13255 (F) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Kennan, George, 1845-1924. Visual materials from the George Kennan papers

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 99472047

Rights Advisory

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Chicago citation style:

Kennan, George, Collector. Cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits of Russians from the George Kennan papers. Russia, 1870. to 1890. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/99472047/.

APA citation style:

Kennan, G. (1870) Cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits of Russians from the George Kennan papers. Russia, 1870. to 1890. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/99472047/.

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Kennan, George, Collector. Cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits of Russians from the George Kennan papers. to 1890. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/99472047/>.