Picturing Central Siberia: The Digitization and Analysis of Early Twentieth-Century Central Siberian Photographic Collections

Authors: Anderson, David G.; Campbell, Craig

Source: Sibirica, Volume 8, Number 2, Summer 2009 , pp. 1-42(42)

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Abstract:

This article documents over five years of exploratory work digitizing glass plate negatives across Siberia dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article explains the technical and cultural challenges governing access to these collections and offers a preliminary analysis of the themes common to this collection of over 4,000 images. The article is accompanied by a photo essay, which provides a sample of the material and the attributions, as well as references to electronic resources for the full collection and guides to further digitization.

Keywords: ARCHIVES; COLONIAL SITUATION; HISTORY; IMPERIAL; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; SCOPIC REGIMES; SOVIET

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sib.2009.080201

Publication date: 2009-06-01

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