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Photographs of the Soviet Union, 1934, 1936, 1961

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MS. 16176 photogr. 6
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Comprises photographs taken in the Soviet Union in 1936 and 1961 (except where otherwise dated) [Note: Items 142-144 are not present, and larger versions of several of the prints in this box can be found in MS. 16176 photogr. 5] (print sizes in millimetres):
  1. (Item 1) Admiralty Building from a distance (150 x 160)
  2. (Item 2) Admiralty Building portico (155 x 148)
  3. (Item 3) Admiralty Building spire (168 x 155)
  4. (Item 4) Street cleaner in front of the Winter Palace, Leningrad (155 x 160)
  5. (Item 5) The Winter Palace seen through arches (168 x 155)
  6. (Item 6) The Winter Palace seen through arches with column (168 x 153)
  7. (Item 7) The Winter Palace detail of arches (155 x 160)
  8. (Item 8) Red army soldiers in Leningrad (155 x 215)
  9. (Item 9) Workers' housing with boy in striped shirt with additional print close-up of workers' housing (165 x 150, 108 x 164)
  10. (Item 10) Workers' housing with people on bench (153 x 153)
  11. (Item 11) Workers' housing with balconies (167 x 155)
  12. (Item 12) Workers in street (115 x 156)
  13. (Item 13) Russian guide (smiling woman) (108 x 152)
  14. (Item 14) Two men with a bicycle (165 x 120)
  15. (Item 15) Children in a school garden (167 x 155)
  16. (Item 16) Three children in school garden (165 x 120)
  17. (Item 17) Young child in a school garden with curly hair (92 x 83)
  18. (Item 18) Barefoot boy in street (165 x 120)
  19. (Item 19) River and Kremlin from Muspratt's hotel rooftop (155 x 159)
  20. (Item 20) Bridge from roof of hotel (155 x 160)
  21. (Item 21) Red Square, Lenin's tomb, Moscow (153 x 160)
  22. (Item 22) Red Square, Lenin's tomb and the walls of the Kremlin, Moscow (155 x 210)
  23. (Item 23) Lenin's Tomb and St Basil's Cathedral (distant shot) (155 x 160)
  24. (Item 24) St Basil's cathedral (155 x 150)
  25. (Item 25) St Basil's Cathedral (190 x 155)
  26. (Item 26) Kremlin walls with water lorry and three boys (180 x 155)
  27. (Item 27) Duma, Regional Parliament Building (215 x 155)
  28. (Item 28) Workers (men and women) repairing riverbank (110 x 152)
  29. (Item 29) Seated workers repairing a riverbank in Moscow (110 x 160)
  30. (Item 30) Repairing riverbank - shirtless man with hammer (110 x 165)
  31. (Item 31) Two men in street (160 x 115)
  32. (Item 32) Entrance of a stadium in Moscow (118 x 165)
  33. (Item 33) Young men (athletes) in stadium (115 x 165)
  34. (Item 34) Steep riverbank with 2 boats (155 x 165)
  35. (Item 35) Cement works on river bank (145 x 165)
  36. (Item 36) Riverbank with two young men (swimmers?) (150 x 157)
  37. (Item 37) Riverbank with old church (155 x 165)
  38. (Item 38) Tractors on barge being taken up the Volga river from Stalingrad (110 x 165)
  39. (Item 39) Ferry boat on Volga (155 x 165)
  40. (Item 40) Captain of Volga steamer with mate, travelling to Stalingrad with a second print of the same photograph (152 x 167, 110 x 157)
  41. (Item 41) Engineer on the Volga steamer going to Stalingrad (216 x 155)
  42. (Item 42) Policeman (?) on board steamer (175 x 156)
  43. (Item 43) Worker in Kazan with hat (photograph taken on the banks of the Volga) (165 x 115)
  44. (Item 44) Worker in Kazan with hat, laughing (157 x 115)
  45. (Item 45) Workers with crates (115 x 165)
  46. (Item 46) Portrait of four workers (155 x 165)
  47. (Item 47) Worker moving a crate (204 x 154)
  48. (Item 48) Smiling man, taken on the banks of the Volga (159 x 196)
  49. (Item 49) Young man in white shirt and white trousers with a cap or headband (165 x 116)
  50. (Item 50) Worker in cord jacket (155 x 115)
  51. (Item 51) Man with straw hat (179 x 155)
  52. (Item 52) Old man with beard (157 x 114)
  53. (Item 53) Man with small boy on shoulder (156 x 115)
  54. (Item 54) Young man/boy with (ship's anchor?) chain (155 x 115)
  55. (Item 55) Man holding little girl (179 x 153)
  56. (Item 56) Four children (boys and one girl) looking at something on riverbank (154 x 165)
  57. (Item 57) Four boys on riverbank (114 x 159)
  58. (Item 58) Boy on riverbank (150 x 115)
  59. (Item 59) People enjoying the new quayside (?) gardens, Kazan (153 x 175)
  60. (Item 60) Blocks of flats just built in Stalingrad (back view) (102 x 165)
  61. (Item 61) The nurse in charge of a creche in one of Stalingrad's factories (with a cat) (165 x 120)
  62. (Item 62) Factory creche, Stalingrad (120 x 165)
  63. (Item 63) Creche with cots (150 x 159)
  64. (Item 64) Little girl washing hands (in creche) (145 x 200)
  65. (Item 65) Children in spotty dresses (outside factory creche?) (165 x 121)
  66. (Item 66) State farm with machinery in foreground, between Rostov and Stalingrad, 50 miles outside Rostov (153 x 216)
  67. (Item 67) Modern buildings at state farm (109 x 165)
  68. (Item 68) Housing on state farm (120 x 165)
  69. (Item 69) Three girls on state farm (89 x 115)
  70. (Item 70) Road to state farm (155 x 155)
  71. (Item 71) Botany Room in Pioneer Palace in Rostov (children's club) - a girl holding a bird of prey (114 x 157)
  72. (Item 72) Road with village beyond (153 x 159)
  73. (Item 73) Village (114 x 159)
  74. (Item 74) An old house on a collective farm (110 x 164)
  75. (Item 75) Two older women with a young boy (155 x 160)
  76. (Item 76) Women outside house (155 x 165)
  77. (Item 77) Woman in kitchen (156 x 164)
  78. (Item 78) Village carpenter (115 x 163)
  79. (Item 79) Horses (115 x 165)
  80. (Item 80) Horse-drawn threshing machine and male and female farmworkers (154 x 161)
  81. (Item 81) Threshing machine (155 x 165)
  82. (Item 82) Threshing machine at a collective farm outside Kyiv [or on the steppes nearer to Kharkov?] (155 x 212)
  83. (Item 83) Threshing machine and worker (180 x 157)
  84. (Item 84) Two men on the motor of the threshing machine on a collective farm outside Kyiv (217 x 157)
  85. (Item 85) Women resting below the threshing machine (182 x 156)
  86. (Item 86) Collective farm women working in a field (126 x 138)
  87. (Item 87) Cowshed (156 x 172)
  88. (Item 88) Girl minding two babies (165 x 115)
  89. (Item 89) Policeman in front of Pioneer Palace (children's club) in Kharkov (207 x 155)
  90. (Item 90) Policeman in a booth [in Kharkov] (192 x 156)
  91. (Item 91) Policeman on plinth (153 x 115)
  92. (Item 92) A shopfront (190 x 154)
  93. (Item 93) Photography shop featuring photographs of Lenin and Stalin (154 x 180)
  94. (Item 94) Market cart with women and boys shopping (155 x 180)
  95. (Item 95) Market queue (114 x 155)
  96. (Item 96) Basket shop, Kharkov marketplace (121 x 165)
  97. (Item 97) Smiling girl in market (195 x 154)
  98. (Item 98) Man selling plants (194 x 155)
  99. (Item 99) Woman selling fruit with man in cap (178 x 155)
  100. (Item 100) Woman buying tomatoes in Kharkov marketplace (216 x 157)
  101. (Item 101) Young woman with bread (154 x 114)
  102. (Item 102) Lettice Ramsey's photograph in Kharkov in 1934 when this modern building was going up (155 x 235)
  103. (Item 103) Modern offices in Kharkov (156 x 215)
  104. (Item 104) Modern housing (180 x 156)
  105. (Item 105) Modern housing close up (164 x 108)
  106. (Item 106) Sports hall (155 x 184)
  107. (Item 107) Young woman athlete (150 x 107)
  108. (Item 108) Railwayman outside the railwayman's club in Kharkov (157 x 215)
  109. (Item 109) Monument to Ukrainian poet Shevchenko (165 x 110)
  110. (Item 110) Woman pushing a pram (195 x 157)
  111. (Item 111) Saint Sofia Cathedral (155 x 165)
  112. (Item 112) Gate Church of the Trinity, Lavra (173 x 155)
  113. (Item 113) Cathedral of Dormition, Kyiv? (155 x 190)
  114. (Item 114) Young policewoman in Kyiv (164 x 109)
  115. (Item 115) Woman and baby (155 x 215)
  116. (Item 116) Priest in Kyiv street (168 x 155)
  117. (Item 117) Children's camp belonging to shoe factory (155 x 163)
  118. (Item 118) Children's camp belonging to shoe factory, outside Kyiv, three boys (157 x 162)
  119. (Item 119) Children's camp belonging to shoe factory outside Kyiv, two girls (212 x 158)
  120. (Item 120) Creche in clothing factory in Kyiv (156 x 166)
  121. (Item 121) Creche in clothing factory in Kyiv (142 x 176)
  122. (Item 122) Creche in clothing factory in Kyiv (156 x 163)
  123. (Item 123) Sleeping baby in a creche in a clothing factory in Kyiv (155 x 180)
  124. (Item 124) Collective farm outside Kyiv (109 x 164)
  125. (Item 125) Manager of a collective farm (157 x 109)
  126. (Item 126) Manager of a collective farm (165 x 122)
  127. (Item 127) Manager of a collective farm (164 x 120)
  128. (Item 128) Young men listening (155 x 165)
  129. (Item 129) Boys listening (160 x 115)
  130. (Item 130) Four boys listening (155 x 174)
  131. (Item 131) Boys at a school on a collective farm (155 x 165)
  132. (Item 132) Children at a school on a collective farm (174 x 153)
  133. (Item 133) Children in garden of collective farm (114 x 165)
  134. (Item 134) Children in the garden of a collective farm (163 x 112)
  135. (Item 135) In school garden on a collective farm, cart in which babies are put at feeding time (109 x 152)
  136. (Item 136) Modern building, Moscow? (116 x 165)
  137. (Item 137) Long cart in front of modern building (149 x 212)
  138. (Item 138) Gorki House of the Soviets (121 x 165)
  139. (Item 139) Modern buildings in distance (168 x 154)
  140. (Item 140) Man with cap (178 x 155)
  141. (Item 141) Circular building (108 x 152)
  142. (Item 145 [20 prints]) Photographs of a holiday spent in Yalta, Black Sea. Helen Muspratt and husband Jack Dunman were invited by the Soviet government to stay in a sanitorium. They also visited a Pioneer Camp, 1961 (all approx. 157 x 121)

Dates

  • Creation: 1934, 1936, 1961

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 16176 photogr. 6

Former reference:

Box 5a

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