Metadata: S. Sh. Izrailit
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Russian Museum of Ethnography
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российский этнографический музей
- Postal address:
- Inzhenernaya St, 4/1, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 191011
- Phone number:
- (812) 313-45-74
- Web address:
- http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/
- Email:
- info@ethnomuseum.ru
- Reference number:
- Collection 12498
- Title:
- S. Sh. Izrailit
- Title (official language):
- Израилит С. Ш.
- Creator/accumulator:
- S. Sh. Izrailit
- Date(s):
- 1845
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1 storage unit
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains a daguerreotype captioned “A Jewish family”; it shows a family of five dressed in secular and traditional Jewish attire (taken in the city of Czernowitz [Chernovtsy, Chernivtsi], Austria-Hungary, 1845).
- Archival history:
- The photo and negative fonds of the State Museum of Ethnography was first formed in the 1890s, virtually from the moment the Russian Museum was established. At present the fonds of the Russian Museum of Ethnography’s photo archive (the photo collection) includes approximately 180,000 storage units. It consists of photographs taken by museum staff during expeditions, as well as photographs acquired from private individuals and various organisations. The main criterion for the formation of particular collections is that the photographs in question belong to a particular collection creator. This is why photos in a given collection may be devoted to different subjects and reflect different ethnic cultures, and may have been taken at different times. In cases in which photos were acquired from collection creators secondarily, a new collection is formed with corresponding numbering. At the same time, in cases in which a large quantity of photographs that can be grouped by ethnic provenance was received from a collection creator at once, standalone collections are organised. Within collections, photographs have consecutive numbering, the sequence of which relates to ethnicity and subject (if the photographs feature several ethnic groups, then for each of these, photos are grouped by subject), or subject only (if the collection’s materials pertain to only one ethnic group). A given photo collection’s sequence number depends on the overall number of exhibit items (and of collections thereof) received by the museum, including material items, as the Russian Museum of Ethnography considers photographs to have the same status as any other ethnographic item.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- A collection containing a single daguerreotype was purchased from S. Sh. Izrailit by the State Museum of Ethnography’s procurement commission in 2007.
- Access points: locations:
- Czernowitz
- Russia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Izrailit, S. Sh.
- Subject terms:
- Clothing
- Photographs
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes a single inventory.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
