• Berland (photographer)

Exterior view of the Second House of Soviets, Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union (now Ekaterinburg, Russia)

late 1920s - early 1930s

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 9.2 x 13.9 cm secondary support: 15.0 x 23.5 cm sheet: 11.1 x 14.6 cm

PH1998:0020:126

• exterior view

- The impressed stamps on the verso of the print are obscured by the secondary support. The secondary support has been trimmed unevenly. The inscription on the verso u.l. of the secondary support has been cropped.

labelled and imprinted - in typescript, on a paper label affixed to the secondary support, c.l.: with title and "Foto Berland." [Photo by Brland.] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and green ink, on a paper label affixed to the secondary support, l.l.: "Arkhiv / Balikhina" [Archive / of Balikhin] stamped - impressed on the print, verso, in various locations: with illeg. stamps stamped and numbered - in black ink, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "[TS]IK - SSSR. / [VSESOUZ]NAIA AKADEMIIA / [ARKH]ITEKTURY / [Kabin[et]. teo]r[ii]. i istor[ii]. arkhitektury / [Inv]. No" and by an unknown hand, in pen and purple ink: "124. -" [[C[entral]]E[xecutive]C[ommittee] - USSR / [ALL-UNI]ON ACADEMY / [OF ARCH]ITECTURE / [Cabin[et]. of The]or[y] and Histor[y]. of architecture / [Inv[entory]]. No 124. -; within rectangle]

Ekaterinburg; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• government office building
• administration building