During the 1860s, several photographers based in Moscow and St. Petersburg produced series of postcards showing Russian 'types.'
These remarkable portraits from The Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography provide a fascinating record of working-class townspeople, artisans, street vendors and peasants, some staged performing an activity, such as drinking tea or gaming, and some photographed in the performance of their occupation.
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| Russian people in the 1860s |
These remarkable portraits from The Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography provide a fascinating record of working-class townspeople, artisans, street vendors and peasants, some staged performing an activity, such as drinking tea or gaming, and some photographed in the performance of their occupation.
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| Sailor selling cloth slippers |
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| Scavenger |
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| Seller of clothes baskets |
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| Seller of 'cringles' i.e. ring-shaped cakes |
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| Seller of Dutch herrings |
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| Seller of Moscow bread |
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| Sieve-dealer |
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| Tailor's apprentice |
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| Tartar dressing-gown seller |
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| Vagabond |
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| Washerwoman |
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| Water carrier |
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| Wetnurse and infant |
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| Wetnurse |
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| Wood-carrier |
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| Woodsman |
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| Apple-seller |
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| Bird-catcher |
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| Boy selling wheelbarrows |
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| Bread and cake seller |
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| Bricklayer |
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| Butcher |
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| Buying frozen fish |
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| Chimney-sweeper |
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| Chimney-sweeper |
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| Coachman |
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| Coachman |
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| Cossack |
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| Fancy-basket seller |
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| Fireman |
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| Floor-cleaner |
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| Floor-cleaner |
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| Flower-seller |
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| Fruit-seller |
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| Game dealer |
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| Gipsy tinman |
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| Glazier |
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| House-porter carrying water |
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| House-porters drinking tea |
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| House-servant |
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| Itinerant musicians |
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| Kitchen-maid |
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| Knife-grinder |
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| Knife-grinder |
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| Lamp-lighter |
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| Lamp-lighter |
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| Lamp-lighter |
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| Match-seller |
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| Merchant |
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| Military barber |
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| Milkmaid |
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| Milk-woman |
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| Monk |
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| Newspaper-seller |
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| Nun |
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| Nun |
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| Peasant |
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| Peasant |
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| Peasant |
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| Peasant |
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| Peasant |
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| Peasants |
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| Pedlar and manservant trying comb |
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| Peep-show |
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| Plasterer |
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| Policeman |
