A Reservoir at the Salt Fields, Solinen, Russia
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.36
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting women working on salt pans piling up mounds of dried salt The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: (99) - 1145 - A reservoir after evaporation - turning up the salt - salt fields, Solinen, Russia Copyright 1898 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso is an extract from "Russia through the Steroscope" giving a description of where the picture was taken - in the marshes, 20 miles east of Odessa by the Black Sea and a description of how salt is produced. Below that printed in black ink in English French German Italian Swedish Spanish and Russian: A Reservoir at the Salt Fields, Solinen, Russia
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographer and publisher