Figure 1.--This postcard-back studio portrait shoiws a Russian boy wearing a Russian blouse outfit with matching short pants in February 1921. This is a combination we do not ordinarily see, perhaps because Russian blouses were diappearing in Russia and short pants just beginning to appear. Notice the patches on the long stockings. This is something we rarely see. The outfit suggests that the boy came from a prpsperous family before the Revolution that had fallen on hard times. And of course the Russian economy at the time was collapsing--partly as a result of the Civil War and partly because of Bolshevik War Communist economic policies. Click on the image to read the writing on the back ans the probable French origins.

We do not know much about the type of portraits produced by studio. We note that we no longer see classic pre-War cabinet cards. And we see imported post-card back studio portraits in the early-1920s. The postcard-back shooting stock for the 1921 portrait here, for example looks to be imported from france (fgigureb 1). This is an area that we hsve noy yet pursued in derail. One matter we are sure bout is that individual studios were vmnot yet identified. We do note that even in the 1970s we see cabinet cards. In the West cabinet cards were not very common after the 1920s.

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