Photograph album of Pray family expatriate life in Vladivostok, Russia,.

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Photograph album of Pray family expatriate life in Vladivostok, Russia,.

Pray, Eleanor, 1868-1954, photographer, compiler.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1899-1909, bulk 1899.

SUMMARY
Photographs depict Eleanor Pray's experiences as an American expatriate living in Vladivostok, Russia. Includes portraits and social activities with an international circle of friends and visitors; Japanese and Chinese servants; excursions in and around the city; interior and exterior views of Dom Smith, the residence she and her husband Frederick shared with his widowed sister Sarah Smith; and their dacha. The album also has a few photos of such Vladivostok landmarks as the Uspenskii Sobor (Cathedral of the Assumption) and the Nikolai Arch as well as the Pray family's farm at Somersworth, New Hampshire.

NOTES
A third of the photographs were taken by Frederick S. Pray, Maud Morphew, David M. Clarkson, Robert S. Ivy, and unidentified people who either used Eleanor Pray's camera or gave her prints.

Two inscriptions on flyleaf: "Clara, with love from Roxy. Vladivostok, 27 September, 1899" and "Dom Smith and views of Vladivostok, E.L. Pray, Berwick, Maine."

Captions accompany only a few of the photographs. Eleanor Pray added many of them years after the album's creation, and there are inaccuracies. Most captions are in English; a few are in Russian written with Cyrillic characters.

Album title devised by Library staff.

Eleanor L. Pray Collection.

Digital surrogates provided in preference to originals, as per Division preservation policy.

Digital scans of each photo display with their associated catalog records in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Includes annotations and quotations from letters by Eleanor Pray, provided by Brigitta Ingemanson, 2002.

Publication is restricted. For information, see "Eleanor Pray Collection" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/385_pray.html)

Gift ; Patricia D. Silver; 2002 (DLC/PP-2002:/143).

MEDIUM
1 album (70 photographic prints) ; 15 x 21 cm. (6 x 8 in.)

CALL NUMBER
LOT 13519

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

DIGITAL ID
mtfxtx l001 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/mtfxtx.l001

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