Department of the Underground- and Astro- photography

Photography from the beginning of 20th century.

Some old photos are shown here. Some of them were made by professional photographers at studios, some made by amateurs, some - by newspaper photographers in their spare time. It is interesting to notice that most of the photos have something written on the back side. Sometimes writings are long enough. It seems that our ancestors had their own point of view on information. They valued their images much more than we do.
What we are going to leave for our grandsons ? Hundreds of DVDs with thousands of files ? Will they ever look at them ? Will they look at them like we looks at the photos that are almost 100 year old ?

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Portrait.
Photographer F.M. Nappelbaum-Miller.
Making movies.
Author unknown
Portrait
Photographer A.Soloviev
Kazan, 12 dec 1927
Portrait
Author unknown
Group portrait
Author unknown
Portrait.
Author unknown
 
Portrait
Author unknown
7 jan 1911

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