Photograph: Young women. A double portrait

European Jews

city Smolensk

1897

Albumen print

9,1 x 5,5; 10,4 x 6,2

РЭМ 12420-4

On the reverse of the letterhead card “A. Posse, Smolensk” is the ink inscription “At the passing to the 2nd grade. Photo taken in the summer of 1897.” Photographer Adolf Karlovich Posse worked in his studio in Smolensk from 1876 till 1896; after his death, the business was taken over by his widow Agrafena Afanasievna in 1897-1899.