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TITLE:  Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire

CALL NUMBER:  LOT 10338 (H) (Use Digital Images) [P&P]
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SUMMARY:  Photographic survey of Central Asia, primarily in and around Samarkand (Samarqand), Bukhara (Bukhoro), and Golodnaia Steppe (Betpak-Dala). Many views show vernacular architecture, madrasahs, mosques, minarets, and mosaics (including Bibi-Khanum, Bogoeddin, Gur-Emir, Passage of the Dead, Shakh-i Zindeh, Shir-Dar, the Registan, Tillia-Kari, the tomb of Baian-Kuli-Khan, and Uluk-Bek). Images also document bridges, canals, and dams. Includes landscapes of Zaravshan valley and mountain ridge (taken from Chapan-Ata), rivers, and apricot flowers and trees. Also includes a single image of an indigenous form of polo (Baiga) being played on a hillside, and a single image of a group of people in the Tian-Shan (Tien Shan) mountains, above the Saliuktin mines, observing a solar eclipse on January 1, 1907. Portraits show local inhabitants, often identified by ethnicity (Sarts, Jews, Kirghiz) or occupation (melon vendor, fabric merchant, native police, water carrier, flatbread vendor, mullah, shepherd). One portrait shows the Emir of Bukhara.

MEDIUM:  1 album (237 photographic prints) ; 27 x 41 cm. (album)

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1905-1915.

CREATOR:

Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich, 1863-1944, photographer.

NOTES:

Title devised by Library staff.

Hand-written Russian captions accompany most prints.

Digitized images of items and album pages display with their associated catalog records in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

Forms part of: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii collection.

SUBJECTS:

Asia, Central--1900-1920.
Russia (Federation)--1910-1920.
Architecture--Asia, Central--1900-1920.
Mosaics--Asia, Central--1900-1920.
People--Asia, Central--1900-1920.
Religious facilities--Asia, Central--1900-1920.
Waterways--Asia, Central--1900-1920.

FORMAT:

Photograph albums 1900-1920.
Photographic prints 1900-1920.
Ethnographic photographs 1900-1920.
Group portraits 1900-1920.
Portrait photographs 1900-1920.
Landscape photographs 1900-1920.

PART OF:  Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich, 1863-1944. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)

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

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original (LOT 10338)) proka 0010a http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/proka.0010a

CONTROL #:  2001696387


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