Photographs from Zhitomir - 1905 Pogrom and Group Photographs

Photographs from Zhitomir - 1905 Pogrom and Group Photographs
Nine photographs from Zhitomir, Ukraine. Unknown photographer, [1905].
1-4. Four photographs documenting the aftermath of the Pogrom executed against the Jews of Zhitomir following the 1905 revolution. Three portray the interior of a demolished house and the fourth portrays the "Student Weinstein who was the first who fell in the war on the Podil in the Zhitomir Pogrom" (Leibush Ephraim ben Shlomo Weinstein, a 21 year old student, member of the Jewish Self-Defense organization in Zhitomir).
5-8. Four photographs portraying groups of children and boys, and Jewish families in Zhitomir.
9. Photograph portraying a bridge over one of the rivers of Zhitomir.
Average size: 12.5X17 cm. Good-fair condition. All photographs are mounted on card, some mounts are cut on the photograph's edge. Stains and minor tears to photographs and mounts (open tear to edge of one photograph). Photograph of the pogrom's victim is titled by hand on the mount.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.