75410

Prison, Ekaterinburg (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  This is apparently one of the photos described in Catalogue of Official A.E.F. Photographs (1919): "75416 Outside the prison gates at Ekaterinburg. Women with food for the prisoners 1918." "75410 Women wives and sweethearts outside the city prison Ekaterinburg with baskets of food and notes to political prisoners ." books.google.com/books?id=DJZDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA577#v=sni...

• B-59 said:

  This photo was printed in several newspapers, e.g. The North Platte semi-weekly tribune., May 02, 1919, Image 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2010270504/1919-05-02/ed-...

• Art Siegel said:

  Caption on N. Platte publication cited by B-59: "A scene outside the city prison in Ekaterinburg, Russia, where political prisoners, bolsheviki, are imprisoned. Scenes like this can be seen daily, the women bringing food and notes to the prisoners. The feeding of the prisoners has become a serious problem on account of the shortage of food In Russia."

• Arden said:

  Thank you Art Siegel and B-59 for the details about the women gathered outside the prison in Ekaterinburg, Russia. We will add some of the information to the description.