Musicians, Russian carnival, Petrograd – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Musicians, Russian carnival, Petrograd
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Accordion players are the focus of this stereograph, which shows musicians among a crowd during a Russian carnival in Petrograd. The city had taken that name in 1914, replacing the German-sounding St. Petersburg, and by around 1919 it was living through the upheaval of the 1917 revolutions and the civil war that followed. Russian carnival festivities trace back to Maslenitsa, the pre-Lent celebration known for music, food and public merrymaking. Keystone View Company published stereo cards like this one for American parlor viewers, so a street scene from Petrograd reached audiences far from Russia.
| Created / published | c1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 18125. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Musical instru.--Accord.; Russia--P-; Geogr.; Music--Accordians; Ph. Ind.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,505 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141920 |
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