Author: anonymous [Lebedin / Lebedinsk, Russia]
Title: Lebedinskaia Viet Ju. S. Zh. D. 1900
Description: n.p. n.p. 1900. orig.cloth. 15x19cm, 10 pp.. Rubbed. Good. ¶ This is a commercially produced cloth-bound "views" album containing 10 photographs mounted on stiff panels folding out in accordian style: one of a large riverside factory complex, the remaining 9 of work crews engaged in pipeline (or aqueduct or railway bed?) and bridge construction in a desolate flat landscape. Possibly lacking the last panel. Only the cover bears text: "Lebedinskaia Viet / Ju. S. Zh. D. / 1900 / Fot. Pletier / v. E- Gradi". Illustrating very early stages of construction of the Ledebinsk iron ore industrial complex at Stary Oskol, [ Belgorod Oblast] Russia? Or of Lebedin [Medvenskiy rayon, Kurskaya Oblast] ?. The photographs each measure 8x11cm.

Keywords: Russian Photography, Medvenskiy, Tsarist Russia, Kursk Kurskaya, Historical, Photograph, Photographs, Photographic, History, Industry Lebedin