Photograph: Jew from Vilna.

European Jews

Vilna Guberniya, city Vilna

1866

Museum of the Peoples of the USSR

Salt paper print

16,5 x 12,6; 23,1 x 15,7

РЭМ 8764-21541

The photograph was received from Brzozovski, artist Strauss and Okolov. In district and province centers, lower-class Jews were occupied as load handlers, stone cutters, and diggers, and generally did hard manual work. The photograph was displayed at the Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of 1867 in Moscow.