[ARCTIC - KOLA PENINSULA – MINING] [Album with Seventy-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Khibinogorsk Township (Kirovsk since 1934) and the “Apatit” Mining Plant in the Modern-Day Murmansk Oblast of Russia, with the Presentation Inscription from the “Apatit’s” First Director Vasily Kondrikov (Executed during the Great Purges in 1937) to Influential Soviet Communist Party Functionary Nikolay Shvernik]
1931. Oblong Folio album (ca. 29x41,5 cm). 13 card stock leaves. With 78 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including three panoramas from ca. 9,5x58,5 cm (3 ¾ x 23 in) to ca. 10x43 cm (4x17 in); the rest are ca. 11x16,5 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ½ in). One panorama signed..... More