Photograph: Woman’s portrait

European Jews

Kazan province, city Kazan

1901

Albumen print

13,4 x 9,6; 16,3 x 10,6

РЭМ 12420-13

On the reverse of the letterhead card indicating the studio’s name “Rembrandt” and the address is the inscription in ink, “Picture taken in August 1901,” and in ball-point pen, “Auntie Olya Efros.” The studio “Rembrandt” was opened in 1897, in Eckerman’s house in Voskresenskaya Street, by citizen Alexander Khristoforovich Zimson who had arrived from Lublin. Zimson’s business operating under the trade name “Rembrandt” became in the early 20th century a popular photo studio in Kazan, and an important educational center of photography: the photographer recruited apprentices to work as his assistants, and conducted courses teaching the photography trade (we used materials from the research paper of R. R. Idrisova).