Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian...

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SUMMARY:Photographic survey of the Ural Mountains industrial area circumscribed by Perm, Ufa, Cheliabinsk, and Verkhoture. Images document industrial facilities including mines (gold, copper, iron, and clay), factories, mills, cities, towns, villages, and labor housing settlements--as well as mountains, cliffs, rock formations, rivers, and a variety of flora. Images also document religious facilities (monasteries, cathedrals, churches, mosques) and religious articles (iconostases, icons, sepulchres) in the area, as well as railroads, railroad bridges, railroad construction and excavation, and railroad stations. Dams, observatories, and monuments are also documented. Occasional images of historic sites, museum specimens and objects are included, and a number of images document taxidermized animals in a private collection. Portraits show industrial and agricultural laborers, peasants, and Baskirs.

MEDIUM:2 albums (414 photographic prints) ; 27 x 41 cm. (albums)

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1910.

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:

Ural Mountains (Russia)--1910-1920.
Architecture--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
Art objects--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
Industrial facilities--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
Labor housing--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
Mining--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
People--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
Plants--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
Religious articles--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
Religious facilities--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
Rock formations--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.
Waterways--Russia (Federation)--Ural Mountains--1910-1920.

FORMAT:

Photographic albums 1910-1920.
Photographic prints 1910-1920.
Cityscape photographs 1910-1920.
Landscape photographs 1910-1920.

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:(original) proka 0006a

CONTROL #:2001696384

Pop Art Machine Code: proka-0006a-0006a