A.V. Seletsky
1866
Water carter Dubnikov [European Jew, Mogilev Guberniya]

Salt paper print
Russian Museum of Ethnography
Number: ??? 8764-21535
 
Curatorial description (Accessed: 5 August 2021)
The photograph was received from P. P. Muromtsev, Fellow, Society of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography.
 
Many Jews living within the Pale of Settlement earned their living by manual labor; the most common occupations were unskilled laborer, loading hands, porters, and water carters. As in most district towns there were no water supply mains, water was delivered from the nearest body of water (lake or river). Usually, the community regulated the water carter jobs; each water carter supplied only the area allocated to him.
 
The photograph was displayed at the Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of 1867 in Moscow.
 
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