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• bldigital
• mechanicalcurator
• libraryofcongress
• vol0
• sherlocknet:category=organism
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• russia
• pubplacelondon
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• sherlocknet:tag=place
• cyrillic
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• ballet
• sherlocknet:tag=hand
• sherlocknet:tag=year
• ukranian
• sourcebook
• lettering
• osnarsky
• sherlocknet:tag=land
• sherlocknet:tag=office

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• British Library 52 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 48 photos & illustrations
• Letterform Archive 13 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 10 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 7 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 7 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 5 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 5 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 3 photos & illustrations
• LSE Library 3 photos & illustrations
• New York Public Library 3 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 2 photos & illustrations

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Count Leo Tolstoy (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  "Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Львович Толстой; 1869 – October 18, 1945) was a Russian writer, and the son of Leo Tolstoy." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Lvovich_Tolstoy He arrived in San Francisco in March 1917, s. the Morning Oregonian, March 26, 1917, Image 3, col. 4, "TOLSTOY IS NOT OPTIMIST", oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1917-03-26/ed-1/se...

• Anne (LOC P&P) said:

  B-59: Thanks for pointing out this is the younger Leo Tolstoy here. We'll make this more clear next time we update the description.

Nijinski and wife (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romola_de_Pulszky Nijinsky's Wikipedia entry indicates,"Nijinsky arrived in New York 4 April 1916." This matches the barely legible date written on the negative, 4/?/14

• swanq said:

  Their daughter Kyra is at
  

• Melinda Young Stuart said:

  Gorgeous couple! Thanks for the reason to read about them both on Wiki~ and for sharing these wonderful images!

• Art Siegel said:

  See notes under

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thank you swanq for putting the parents with their daughter. Looks as if both photos were taken in the same sitting. We'll add the dates to the records the next time we update.

A.H. Kerensky (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  LOC note: Should be A.F. Kerensky. "Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ˈkʲerʲɪnskʲɪj]; 2 May 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and politician, who served as the second Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government in July–November 1917. A leader of the moderate-socialist Trudoviks faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Kerensky is a key figure of the Russian Revolution." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kerensky

• B-59 said:

  The sun., August 12, 1917, Section 5 Special Feature Supplement, Page 5 (with extensive article) used this photo chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1917-08-12/ed-... as well as the New-York tribune., July 22, 1917, Page 5 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1917-07-22/ed-... and the Evening star., July 15, 1917, Image 33 (with the reference: Photo by Paul Thompson; the Bain photo is a cropped version of this one) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1917-07-15/ed-... In the Washington times., July 24, 1917, NIGHT FINAL, Editorial Page, Image 14, it is reversed chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1917-07-24/ed-...

• Anne (LOC P&P) said:

  Art Siegel and B-59: Thanks for your research here! We will include some of this background information next time we update the description.