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[Armenian S.S.R.: Smiling girl holding doll] – Historic Print

[Armenian S.S.R.: Smiling girl holding doll], [ca. 1950] — historic photograph
[Armenian S.S.R.: Smiling girl holding doll], [ca. 1950]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures [Armenian S.S.R.: Smiling girl holding doll] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A young girl smiles at the camera while holding a doll, a simple domestic moment recorded in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic around 1950. The caption card lists the subjects as Armenians and dolls, but the record is unverified, so little is known about the child or where the picture was taken. In those years Armenia was one of the republics of the Soviet Union, and photographs of everyday childhood like this one often appeared in state publications and the foreign press, where they could present Soviet life as orderly and cheerful. Today the picture is worth noticing for its ordinary subject as much as for its political setting.

Created / published[ca. 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Armenians; Dolls.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,074 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147200

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