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Notice to Coal Miners, Birobidgan (Capitol) Region in Siberia
Notice to Coal Miners, Birobidgan (Capitol) Region in Siberia
Notice to Coal Miners, Birobidgan (Capitol) Region in Siberia

Notice to Coal Miners, Birobidgan (Capitol) Region in Siberia

Artist (Uzbekistani, 1906 - 1984)
Date1932
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage (Top Left Image): 2 3/8 × 3 5/8 in. (6 × 9.2 cm)
Image (Bottom Left Image): 2 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (5.7 × 8.9 cm)
Image (Front Right Image): 3 3/8 × 2 3/8 in. (8.6 × 6 cm)
Image (Back Image): 3 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (8.9 × 6 cm)
Support: 4 1/2 × 6 3/8 in. (11.4 × 16.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Paul and Teresa Harbaugh, 2000
Object number2000.47.51
DescriptionSeries of four photographs taken around the Birobidgan Region of Siberia where majority of Jews were deported during the first wave of Stalin’s anti-Semitism in early 1930s, well known avant-garde image of female miner holding lantern.
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Notice to Coal Miners
Georgy Zelma
1932
New Uda, Eastern Siberia, Primary School
Georgy Zelma
1936 (printed later)
Shacks
Marion Post Wolcott
1935-1941
Cavalry
Georgy Zelma
1939?
Mikhail Kalinin
Georgy Zelma
circa 1930
Old Moscow
Georgy Zelma
1952