• Unknown (photographer)

Collage of views of a city square in 1914 and 1933, Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union (now Ekaterinburg, Russia)

after 1933

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 8.4 x 13.4 cm secondary support: 20.7 x 30.3 cm

PH1998:0020:130

• exterior view

- The impressed stamps on the verso of the print are obscured by the secondary support.

imprinted and dated - in the image, c.l.: "Novyi Sverdlovsk - 1933 g[od]." [New Sverdlovsk - 1933 y[ear].] and l.r.: "Staryi Ekaterinburg. - 1914 g[od]." [Old Ekaterinburg. - 1914 y[ear].] labelled and imprinted - in typescript, on a paper label affixed to the secondary support, c.l.: with title and : "Prezhde: [underlined] / 60 tysiach zhitelei, / neprolaznaia griaz' / Teper': [underlined] / 470 tysiach zhitelei / moshchenye bruschat- / koi ulitsy, tramvai.-" [Before: [underlined] / 60 thousands inhabitants, / unbearable dirt / Now: [underlined] / 470 thousands inhabitants / covered with paving sto- / ne streets, street- / car.-] 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.: "TSIK - SSSR. / VSESOUZNAIA AKADEMIIA / ARKHITEKTURY / Kabin[et]. teor[ii]. i istor[ii]. arkhitektury / Inv. No" and by an unknown hand, in pen and purple ink: "120" [C[entral]E[xecutive]C[ommittee]- USSR / ALL-UNION ACADEMY / OF ARCH]ITECTURE / Cabin[et]. of Theor[y] and Histor[y]. of architecture / Inv[entory]. No 120; within rectangle] numbered - by an unknown hand, in red pencil, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: "149" [diagonally; upside down]

Ekaterinburg; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• square (open space)