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• Title: Views of people and places in and near Siberia from the George Kennan papers
• Related Names:
     Kennan, George, 1845-1924 , collector
     Kennan, George, 1845-1924 , photographer
• Date Created/Published: 1860-1890.
• Medium: 137 items (photographic and photomechanical prints) ; 25 x 36 cm. or smaller.
• Summary: Group 13251-1: Landscape views of the Altai mountains, including the Katun range; wildflowers on the steppes; Lake Baikal; women reaping in a field near Krasnoyarsk. Group 13251-2: convicts and exiles being transported; escaped convicts; prisoners working at the mines of Kara; exile laborers in Tiumen.́ Group 13251-3: prisons and forwarding prisons, including the prisons at Irkutsk and Gorni-Zerentui; the mines at Algatcha. Group 13251-4: primarily views of Tomsk, Barnaul, Irkutsk and nearby villages, Ust Kamenogorsk; and the village of Kiakhta, showing the "neutral ground" between China and Siberia. Group 12351-5: people of Siberia including Kirghis horsemen; a district governor, his wife and child, at a Kirghis council tent; Kachinski Tatars posed outside a yurt; a market at Semipalatinsk; a Buddhist monastery near Maimachin (i.e., Altan Bulak). Group 12351-6: miscellaneous images including a ferry with passengers at Semipalatinsk; a tarantas with driver; a Siberian posting sleigh with Kennan standing beside it; the interior of a room; two corpses prepared for burial. Group 12351-7: miscellaneous commercial photos including: a tarantas, probably photographed in the United States; a steamer on the Ob River at Tiumen;́ a peasant woman of Simbirsk and two young girls in traditional clothing; peasants demonstrating a dance; a formal portrait of Mrs. Petronkevich posed as if mixing chemicals; George Kennan posing in convict clothing given to him during his trip; a sailing ship; barges and floating warehouses at a market town(?); composite photograph of buildings in Yekaterinburg. Some photos captioned as Kirghiz, Tartar, and Siberia actually show Kazakhs and Kazakhstan. Corrections made in the online catalog records for individual photos. (Source: S. Satayeva, 2012)
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html)
  
• Call Number: LOT 13251 (F) (H) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Organized by subject into seven subdivisions.
  • Handwritten inscriptions in English on most photographs.
  • Most of the photographs were taken by Kennan and his traveling companion George A. Frost during their 1886-1887 trip through Siberia; photographs of the Altai mountain passes probably taken by exile Adam Bialovski; the portrait of Mrs. Petrunkevich is credited to Walery of Paris, France; Kennan dressed in convict clothing was taken by Richards, of Medina, N.Y.
  • LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • George Kennan, journalist, author, lecturer and explorer, first traveled to northeast Siberia in 1865 where he worked for two years as a telegraph engineer with the Russia-American Telegraph Company. In 1870, Kennan returned to Russia for a year to study in people and manners of the Caucasus region. He returned in 1886 under the sponsorship of the Century Club, to study the Russian exile and penal system. During that trip he was accompanied by artist George A. Frost, whose drawings and photographs were used extensively to illustrate Kennan's books and articles.
  • Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080).
• Subjects:
  • Russians--1880-1890.
  • Prisoners--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--1880-1890.
  • Prisons--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--1880-1890.
  • Mountains--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--1880-1890.
  • Cities & towns--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--1880-1890.
  • Villages--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--1880-1890.
  • Markets--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--1880-1890.
  • Monasteries--Mongolia--1880-1890.
  • Forts & fortifications--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--1860-1890.
  • Transportation--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--1880-1890.
  • Siberia (Russia)--1870-1890.
  • Kazakhstan--1870-1890.
• Format:
  • Cityscape photographs--1880-1890.
  • Group portraits--1880-1890.
  • Landscape photographs--1880-1890.
  • Photographic prints--1860-1890.
  • Photomechanical prints--1880-1890.
  • Portrait photographs--1880-1890.
• Collections:
  • Groups of Images (LOTs)
• Part of: Kennan, George, 1845-1924. Visual materials from the George Kennan papers
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• Rights Advisory: Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: LOT 13251 (F) (H) [P&P]
• Medium: 137 items (photographic and photomechanical prints) ; 25 x 36 cm. or smaller.

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• Call Number: LOT 13251 (F) (H) [P&P]
• Medium: 137 items (photographic and photomechanical prints) ; 25 x 36 cm. or smaller.

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