[Yerevan, Armenian S.S.R.: Elderly man reading to 2 small children] – Historic Print
![[Yerevan, Armenian S.S.R.: Elderly man reading to 2 small children], [ca. 1950] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/de/de405b2eee39-L.webp)
(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 [Yerevan, Armenian S.S.R.: Elderly man reading to 2 small children] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Yerevan, Armenian S.S.R.: Elderly man reading to 2 small children]
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An elderly man reads aloud to two small children in this view from Yerevan, then the capital of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. The catalog dates it to about 1950, but the caption details are unverified, so the exact setting and the people's names are not known. Reading to children was a long-standing family custom in Armenia, and scenes like this one record ordinary domestic life. Yerevan has roots going back to the ancient fortress of Erebuni, and in the postwar years the city was expanding and rebuilding, which gives the quiet domestic moment its period context.
| Created / published | [ca. 1950] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Armenians; Children; Books and reading. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,126 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147208 |
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