Call Number:

PH-00241

Collection Name:

Elias Tobenkin Photography Collection of Russian People

Creator:

No. of Items:

184 items

Span Dates:

circa 1920-circa 1950

Description:

The collection consists of 184 photographs, which date between circa 1920 and circa 1950, taken and collected by journalist and novelist Elias Tobenkin (American, born Russia, 1882-1963). Subjects include: Russian theater, street scenes, architecture, peasant lifestyle, postcards, portraits and group portraits; Russian people and life following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917; groups of writers; the editor of The New Solviet Enyclopedia; portraits of the Romanovs; portraits of Demian Bedny, Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky; and the Selsoviet of Kopil (Trade Union of Kopil). Photographers whose work is included in the collection are Herbert Paxton, Press Cliche, and Parikas. Many of the photographs came from the New York Tribune. Brief descriptions of groups of photographs follow.

Group Portraits
Envelope 1 -- 982:0006:0001-0019
Envelope 2 -- 982:0006:0020-0028

Portraits of Russian People
Envelope 1 -- 982:0006:0029-0052
Envelope 2 -- 982:0006:0053-0067
Envelope 3 -- 982:0006:0068-0080

Russian Theatre -- 982:0006:0081-0085

Architecture -- 982:0006:0086-0095

Street Scenes -- 982:0006:0096-0104

Peasant Life -- 982:0006:0105-0135

Postcards and Small Prints
Envelope 1 -- 982:0006:0136-0146
Envelope 2 -- 982:0006:0147-0160
Envelope 3 -- 982:0006:0161-0170
Envelope 4 -- 982:0006:0171-0179

Sketches of People -- 982:0006:0180-0184.

Location(s):

Tobenkin, E., Box (982:0006:0001-0184)
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See Also:

Elias Tobenkin Papers: Related manuscript materials and additional photographs, from which these photographs were likely taken, are located in the Elias Tobenkin Papers (MS-04243).