Research Catalog

Title

Sakhalin photograph album, between circa 1885 and circa 1905.

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Details

Additional Authors

Friken, Alexey Aleksandrovich von, 1888-1904

Description

1 volume (24 leaves) : gelatin silver photographs; 32 x 41 cm

Summary

Album of 108 gelatin silver photographs on 24 card stock leaves, all but one with captions on the mounts in Russian. One photograph signed in the negative by Alexey Aleksandrovich von Friken ("Fon Fricken"). The photographs document Sakhalin Island during its use as a Russian Imperial penal colony and depict prisons and prisoners, prosecutors, exile settlements, fishing and oil extracting operations, towns, and portraits of native people. Some of the subjects have been identified, including notorious executioners Golynsky and Komelev, and Fedor Shirokolobov, a well-known man convicted of murder and sentenced to be attached to a wheelbarrow for ten years. Includes multiple graphic images of an execution and injuries resulting from physical abuse.

Subject

• Prisoners > Russia (Federation) > Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)
• Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) > Economic conditions
• Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) > Social conditions
• Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) > Population
• Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)

Genre/Form

• Photograph albums.
• Photographs.

Note

• Title supplied by cataloger.

Biography (note)

• Alexey Aleksandrovich von Friken was a government inspector of agriculture on Sakhalin Island from 1888 to 1905, and supervisor of the meteorological stations there from 1889 to 1897. Despite his amateur status, he opened a photography studio in Alexandrovsk.

Binding (note)

• Album in period dark green full morocco with partially intact metal decorative elements on the front board; decorative endpapers; all edges gilt.

Call Number

MFY 21-1

OCLC

1288702799

Title

Sakhalin photograph album, between circa 1885 and circa 1905.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Biography

Alexey Aleksandrovich von Friken was a government inspector of agriculture on Sakhalin Island from 1888 to 1905, and supervisor of the meteorological stations there from 1889 to 1897. Despite his amateur status, he opened a photography studio in Alexandrovsk.

Binding

Album in period dark green full morocco with partially intact metal decorative elements on the front board; decorative endpapers; all edges gilt.

Added Author

Friken, Alexey Aleksandrovich von, 1888-1904, photographer.

Research Call Number

MFY 21-1