Photograph: Jew, 40 y.o.

European Jews

Vilna Guberniya

1866

Museum of the Peoples of the USSR

Salt paper print

21,4 x 14,8

РЭМ 8764-21564

The man has on a brimmed hat, one of the most common male headgears in shtetls in the second half of the 19th century (it was worn over a kippah) and peies (payot) on the temples are signs of special religiosity and affiliation to the Jewish people. The photograph was displayed at the Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of 1867 in Moscow.