• Unknown (photographer)

View of housing and a department store, Stalinsk, Soviet Union (now Novokuznetsk, Russia)

after 1932

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 11.0 x 21.5 cm

PH1998:0020:082

• exterior view

- A label or other piece of paper was formerly affixed to the verso, u.l. to l.r. of this print. It has since been torn off, along with the surface layers of the verso of the print leaving traces of glue. The image and inscriptions on the vesro have been cropped.

imprinted - in the image, l.c. to l.r.: "UNIVERMAG" [DEPARTMENT STORE; thrice; in Latin and Cyrillic alphabet; building signs] inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l. to t.: with title; c.: "3754"; l.c.: "X" [circled]; l.r.: "arkhiv Balikhina" [archive of Balikhin]; and in pen and purple ink, c.r.: "N179" stamped - in black ink, on the secondary support, verso, c.r.: "Kabin[e]t Teorii i / Istorii Arkhite- / ktury V.A.A." [Cabin[e]t of Theory and / History of Archite- / cture V.A.A.; within rectangle]

Novokuznetsk; Kemerovskaia oblast'; Russia (Fede

• architecture

• apartment houses
• industrial housing
• department store