Metadata: Negatives and Photographs FondS
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies
- Holding institution (official language):
- Петербургский институт иудаики
- Postal address:
- 191036, St. Petersburg, 1-aia Sovetskaia ul., d. 10, lit. K, 1-N
- Phone number:
- (812)449-52-50
- Web address:
- http://pijs.ru/ob_arhive
- Email:
- archive@pijs.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 9
- Title:
- Negatives and Photographs FondS
- Title (official language):
- Фонд негативов и фотографий
- Creator/accumulator:
- St. Petersburg Jewish University
- Date(s):
- 1986/1998
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- over 511 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains negatives, test prints and photographs taken during historical-ethnographic expeditions (1986-98); these are mainly photographs of intact gravestones in Jewish cemeteries, as well as of synagogues and traditional Jewish structures.
- Archival history:
- This fonds was formed in the late 1980s on the basis of photoGraphic materials collected during St. Petersburg Jewish University expeditions that were allocated to a separate fonds; for more on the expeditions organised by the St. Petersburg Jewish University / Institute of Jewish Studies, see this archive’s f. 1 (“Expedition Materials [Consolidated Fonds]”).
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises twelve series arranged chronologically; ops. 8 and 9 are currently being compiled.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary