Guide to the Evgenii Lendon Collection, 1890's-1930s, 1987-1991, 1994, RG 1853

Title: Guide to the Evgenii Lendon Collection, 1890's-1930s, 1987-1991, 1994, RG 1853

Inclusive Dates: 1890s-1930s, 1987-1991, 1994

ID: RG 1853

This collection contains 147 photographs of the city of L’viv, Ukraine (formerly Lemberg, Austria-Hungary; Lwów, Poland; L’vov, Russia). The photographs were taken by an unknown photographer(s) at various times during the period ca. 1890 through the 1930s. Three photographs are from the post-1945 years. The majority of the photographs were developed from glass negatives between 1987 and 1991. These negatives came to the attention of Evgenii Lendon in the 1980s, and Lendon preserved the images by making large, exhibition-quality prints from the negatives.

Administrative/Biographical History

Evgenii Lendon was a museum supervisor and photographer at the National Museum of L'viv (formerly the Lenin Museum). Mr. Lendon immigrated to the United States in 1992, where he now resides.

Administrative Information

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Acquisition Note: The collection was given to the YIVO Archives in 2007 by Fay and Julian Bussgang of Lexington, MA.

Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); YIVO Archives; Evgenii Lendon Collection; RG 1853; folder number.

Description: The collection is comprised of 147 sepia, as well as black and white photo prints, some of which were made from glass negatives. The glass negatives are not in this collection. Most of the photographs show various parts of the city of L’viv as it was during the last decades under the Hapsburg rule, and during the interwar period in the independent Polish republic. They depict the city in its artistic and architectural splendor, as well as it being the hub of trade, politics, multicultural and societal life. Included are views of major thoroughfares, street and marketplace scenes, advertisements, parades, theaters, high society clubs, ceremonies involving famous people, churches of varying denominations, monuments of famous people, and cemeteries. A select number of photographs clearly depict scenes with a Jewish presence: Jewish shops, a hospital, a cemetery and funeral chapel, burnt-out synagogues, and old Jewish neighborhoods. Jewish signs and posters in Yiddish and Polish are visible in some of these photos.

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