Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Title: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Other Title: Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ Collection
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskiĭ Photographic Record Recreated.
Creator(s): Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1863-1944, photographer
Date Created/Published: between 1905 and 1915.
Medium: 14 albums (2,433 photographic prints) ; 27 x 41 cm. (album)
1,902 negatives : glass, b&w, three-color separation, triple frame ; 24 x 9 cm.
Summary: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ's photographic survey of the Russian Empire (1909-1915) provides 2,615 distinct photographic views that show cities and villages, religious architecture, industrial and agricultural activities and sites, historic sites, waterway and railway construction, cultural artifacts, people, and flora and fauna. Each journey is represented by one or more photographic albums and corresponding negatives for the Caucasus, Turkestan (Central Asia), Marinskii Canal, Ural Mountains region, Volga River region, Napoleonic War area, and Murmansk Railway. There is also an album of various studies, including views in Europe.
Reproduction Number: ---
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For additional information about commercial usage, see "Prokudin-Gorskii ...,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/237_prok.html)
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
- Arrangement: Organized in 2 series by format. Glass negatives are in series LC-P87. Photographic prints are in albums (LOTs 10332 to 10342) based on the photographer's seven surveys, with one volume of early studies. Each image is cataloged individually: as a negative when one exists, or, as a photographic print when no negative for that image exists. In addition, each album or album set is cataloged as a LOT. All items are linked through the collection title: Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ collection (Library of Congress)
- Educated as a chemist, Prokudin-Gorskii devoted his career to the advancement of photography. Around 1907, he formulated a plan to use the emerging technological advancements in color photography to systematically document the Russian Empire's history, culture, and modernization. Tsar Nicholas II supported this ambitious project by providing passes and transportation. Prokudin-Gorskii completed seven survey trips and conducted many illustrated lectures of his work before leaving Russia in 1918 and eventually settling in Paris.
- Collection title devised by Library staff.
- Most photographic prints are mounted in albums compiled by Prokudin-Gorskiĭ and accompanied by his handwritten Cyrillic captions
- Approximately 120 images have been digitally rendered in color, using modern techniques.
- Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 190
- Digitized images of items display with their associated catalog records in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.prok
- Purchase ; photographer's sons ; 1948.
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Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For additional information about commercial usage, see "Prokudin-Gorskii ...," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/237_prok.html
Reproduction Number: ---
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: 14 albums (2,433 photographic prints) ; 27 x 41 cm. (album)
1,902 negatives : glass, b&w, three-color separation, triple frame ; 24 x 9 cm.

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Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: 14 albums (2,433 photographic prints) ; 27 x 41 cm. (album)
1,902 negatives : glass, b&w, three-color separation, triple frame ; 24 x 9 cm.

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