View of a gateway leading to the backyards of housing in the Dubrovka complex decorated with a banner proclaming the transformation of the yards into places of cultural recreation for the inhabitants, Moscow

People:

Unknown (photographer)
N. Molokov (role unspecified)
M. Motylev (role unspecified)

Title:

Date:

after 1927 or 1928

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 15.5 x 21.4 cm secondary support: 20.7 x 29.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1998:0020:020

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The image and the secondary support have been trimmed unevenly.

Inscription:

imprinted - in the image, u.c.: "PREVRATIM DVORY NASHIKH DOMOV v MESTO / KUL'TURNOGO OTDYKHA ZHIL'TSOV i DETVORY." [LET'S TRANSFORM YARDS OF OUR HOUSES into PLACE / OF CULTURAL RECREATION OF INHABITANTS and KIDS.; on banner]; and c.r.: "POLIKLINIKA [illeg.] / [illeg.] four lines / VYZOV VRACHEI / NA DOM[illeg.] / [illeg.] two lines" [POLYCLINIC [illeg.] / [illeg.] four lines / CALL OF DOCTORS / TO YOUR HOUSE [illeg.] / [illeg.] two lines; on plaque] labelled and imprinted - in typescript, on a paper label affixed to the secondary support, u.l. to c.l.: with title and "Tema: Zhilkompleks / sotsgoroda." [Topic: Hous[ing]complex of / soc[ialist]city.] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in purple ballpoint pen, on the secondary support under the label, l.l.: "Iz arkhiva Balikhina" [From archive of Balikhin] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and purple ink, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "1050" [diagonally]

Location:

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

courtyard
fence
apartment houses
industrial housing

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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