Attending market in winter, Moscow, Russia – Antique Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Attending market in winter, Moscow, Russia, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Attending market in winter, Moscow, Russia
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A winter market scene in Moscow, captured on a stereo card, shows how townspeople gathered to buy and trade in the cold. Around 1919, the city was under strain from the Russian Civil War and the policies of War Communism, when official rationing often fell short of demand. Street and open-air markets became vital for food, fuel, and household goods, and they often operated informally. Stereographs like this were made as pairs of slightly offset images, which a viewer could fuse through a stereoscope to see the scene in depth.
| Created / published | c1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Markets--Russia--Moscow--1910-1920. City & town life--Russia--Moscow--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,236 × 5,196 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143732 |
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