Eleanor Lord Pray family expatriate life in Vladivostok,Russia

Photograph album of Pray family expatriate life in Vladivostok, Russia
Title: Photograph album of Pray family expatriate life in Vladivostok, Russia
Creator(s): Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954, photographer Pray, Eleanor Lord, 1868-1954, compiler
Date Created/Published: 1899-1909, bulk 1899.
Summary: Photographs depict Eleanor Pray's experiences as an American expatriate living in Vladivostok, Russia. Includes portraits and social activities with an international circle of friends and visitors; Japanese and Chinese servants; excursions in and around the city; interior and exterior views of Dom Smith, the residence she and her husband Frederick shared with his widowed sister Sarah Smith; and their dacha. The album also has a few photos of such Vladivostok landmarks as the Uspenskii Sobor (Cathedral of the Assumption) and the Nikolai Arch as well as the Pray family's farm at Somersworth, New Hampshire.
Notes:
Eleanor Roxanna Lord Pray (1868-1954) received her first camera in March 1899. She took most of this album's pictures as a new photographer to send to family in the United States with her extensive correspondence. She lived in Vladivostok, Russia, from 1894 to 1930, where her husband, Frederick S. Pray (d. 1923) worked in the 'American Store,' owned by his sister and brother-in-law, Sarah E. and Charles Smith (d. 1898).
Approximately 2,000 letters in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division (received in 2012) provide information on the photographs, including taking up the hobby of photography, ordering and receiving her first camera and photographic supplies in 1898.
A third of the photographs were taken by Frederick S. Pray, Maud Morphew, David M. Clarkson, Robert S. Ivy, and unidentified people who either used Eleanor Pray's camera or gave her prints.
Two inscriptions on flyleaf: 'Clara, with love from Roxy. Vladivostok, 27 September, 1899' and 'Dom Smith and views of Vladivostok, E.L. Pray, Berwick, Maine.'
Captions accompany only a few of the photographs. Eleanor Pray added many of them years after the album's creation, and there are inaccuracies. Most captions are in English; a few are in Russian written with Cyrillic characters.
Album title devised by Library staff.
Digitized images of these items display with their associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Includes annotations and quotations from letters by Eleanor Pray, provided by Brigitta Ingemanson, 2002, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
Digitized images and records are also available through the Library of Congress web site: 'Meeting of Frontiers.'
Gift ; Patricia D. Silver ; 2002 (DLC/PP-2002:/143).
Eleanor L. Pray Collection.
Subjects:
Americans--Foreign countries--1890-1910.
Americans--Social life--Russia (Federation)--Vladivostok--1890-1910.
Servants--Russia (Federation)--Vladivostok--1890-1910.
Monuments & memorials--Russia (Federation)--Vladivostok--1890-1910.
Interiors--1890-1910.
Group portraits--1890-1910.
Photograph albums--1890-1910.
Photographic prints--1890-1910.
Portrait photographs--1890-1910.
Snapshots--1890-1910.
Bookmark /2003652872/
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