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Collection: Photography Studios

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Date:	1916
Location:	Opatow
Photog:	n/a

Description:
Studio portrait of Avner Kirshenblatt and 18-year-old Rivke Wajeblum on the occasion of their engagement. (Behind them is a backdrop used by the traveling photographer who took their portrait. It is creased because it was often rolled up.)

Date:	World War I
Location:	Skierniewice
Photog:	Przdeckiegi, D.

Description:
Outdoor portrait of unidentified people, including men in uniform: one man (3rd row, 2nd from r) is identifiably Jewish. (The dog was probably a regular prop of the photographer.)

Date:
Location:
Photog:	n/a

Description:
Studio portrait of Avrom Yosl Rotenberg, a photographer known for photos of traditional "types" that he made in his hometown, Staszow, and in the surrounding areas.

Date:	1930s
Location:	Drohiczyn
Photog:	Szwarc, I.

Description:
Menahem Kipnis (1878-1942), center, with his wife and friends (one with accordion), seated around an outdoor table. Kipnis was a photographer, folklorist, and journalist, and was considered to be the first serious music reviewer to write for the Yiddish press.

Date:	1910
Location:	Warsaw
Photog:	n/a

Description:
Studio portrait of young men and women "going for a drive in the country," by posing with a cardboard car, one of the photographer's props.

Date:	1921
Location:	Skierniewice
Photog:	Karp, L.

Description:
Studio portrait of Licjwa and her father, L. Karp, well-known studio photographer in town, playing violins in his photography studio.

Date:	1936
Location:	Vilna
Photog:	n/a

Description:
Members of the board of the Vilna Yiddish Writers and Journalists Association: A.Frydkin, Sh. Bejlis, A.J. Goldszmidt, Ch. Lewin, H.Abramowicz, Moshe Szalit, and A.J. Grodzenski and Abe Safir. (The photographer is reflected in the mirror.)

Date:	1866-1867
Location:	Brody
Photog:	Swiatoniowski

Description:
Studio portrait of Alexander Landau, about 6 years old (1861-1937), a member of the noted Landau family, standing with a toy rifle, leaning on an upholstered armchair. (Photographer's stamp has a cupid behind a camera and another holding up a portrait.)

Date:	August 1933
Location:	Brest
Photog:	Studio Modern

Description:
Vignetted studio portrait of "Manya Rosenblum, a housewife" (identified on back in Yiddish and English). (Polish photographer's stamp on back: "Studio Modern at 16 Bialystok Street.")

Date:
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Photog:	n/a

Description:
"You should always refer to my father as `the well-known Yiddish writer, poet, and dramatist, Alter Kacyzne, who was also a famous photographer of Jewish life.'" Portrait study of Alter Kacyzne smoking a cigarette.

Date:	ca. 1895
Location:	Odessa
Photog:	Weinstein, J.

Description:
Studio portrait of a mother and daughter (unidentified): a young girl (in two-toned boots) sits on a pedestal; her mother's arm encircles her. (Taken at a photographer's studio "located across from the main synagogue.")

Date:	February, 1871
Location:	Odessa
Photog:	Lichtenberg, M.

Description:
Studio portrait of "Cherny with Mr. Shershevsky from Pinsk" (written in Russian): two men wearing double-breasted coats; one (right) clasps a book. (Taken at a photographer's studio on Richelieu Street.)

Date:	September 1916
Location:	Kerch
Photog:	Aleksandr Bankin

Description:
Studio portrait of Aleksandr Bankin (b. 1884, Kuban), a professional photographer, with his wife Roza (b. 1888, Kerch) and their infant son Viktor (b. 1916, Baku). (Aleksandr and Roza are wearing matching outfits in white pinstripe.)