Unidentified photographer
1866
Jew from the shtetl of Zinkovets [Podolia Guberniya, Kamenetsky Uyezd, Shtetl of Zinkovets]

Salt paper print
Russian Museum of Ethnography
Number: ??? 8764-21550
 
Curatorial description (Accessed: 6 August 2021)

 
The photograph was received from the Kamenets District Chief of Police.
 
Old man in a praying attire.
 
The shtetl of Zinkovets on the Smotrich River was a suburb of Kamenets. In the 1840-s, it had 999 residents, of which 37 percent of Jews, mostly poor artisans, coachmen, and unskilled laborers.
 
The photograph was displayed at the Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of 1867 in Moscow.
 
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